Patent ID: 9307459
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for neighbor reporting in a mobile communication network, the method comprising: categorizing, by a neighbor relation maintenance device, a plurality of mobile stations into one or more groups of mobile stations, wherein the plurality of mobile stations are associated with a serving base station; determining, by the neighbor relation maintenance device, a single primary neighbor base station for each of the one or more groups of mobile stations; instructing, by the neighbor relation maintenance device, the plurality of mobile stations in the one or more groups of mobile stations to report signal strength measurements between the plurality of mobile stations in the one or more groups of mobile stations and the corresponding single primary neighbor base station associated with the one or more groups of mobile stations in a first time period; and instructing, by the neighbor relation maintenance device, the plurality of mobile stations in the one or more groups of mobile stations to report signal strength measurements between each of the plurality of mobile stations in the one or more groups of mobile stations and the corresponding single primary neighbor base station in a predefined neighbor list associated with the plurality of mobile stations in a second time period, wherein the predefined neighbor list associated with the plurality of mobile stations includes one or more neighbor base stations accessible by the plurality of mobile stations.