Patent ID: 9357445
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04B,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for wireless communications, comprising: receiving from at least one mobile unit of a system for wireless communications by a plurality of base station units in a wireless communications system, an inquiry whether each of the plurality of base station units is configured to provide a wireless service for the at least one mobile unit, wherein each of the plurality of base station units is configured to communicate wirelessly with the at least one mobile unit; broadcasting, by each of the base station units that received the inquiry, a message comprising the inquiry and data related to the respective base station unit to each of the other base station units of the plurality of the base station units; negotiating between each of the plurality of base station units to determine, by at least one of the base station units that received the inquiry, an optimal base station unit from the plurality of base station units to communicate with the at least one mobile unit; determining, by the plurality of base station units that received the inquiry, the optimal base station unit from the plurality of base station units to communicate with the at least one mobile unit; and responsive to negotiating and determining, sending by the optimal base station unit to the at least one mobile unit, a response to the inquiry indicating that the base station unit is available to provide wireless service for the at least one mobile unit, where the optimal base station unit is determined using load balancing among the plurality of the base station units, the load balancing being determined based on a minimum number of channels in use in the optimal base station, said minimum number of channels in use in said optimum base station, wherein the minimum number of channels in use in the optimal base station unit is determined by using, depending on a type of communication requested in the inquiry from the at least one mobile unit, at least one of a minimum number of asynchronous connectionless links channels in use and a minimum number of synchronous connection oriented channels in use.