Patent ID: 9491629
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, in a cellular communication network comprising cells among which at least one cell is switched off, for providing at least a minimum coverage for multimedia transmission, said multimedia being parted into a number of independent autonomous multimedia partitions, comprising: transmitting from one or more neighbor cells of said switched off cell, one or more multimedia partitions of a primary subset of the one or more multimedia partitions over a normal range; transmitting from at least a first and a second neighbor cell of said switched off cell, one or more multimedia partitions of a secondary subset of the one or more multimedia partitions over an extended range, said secondary subset of said first neighbor cell being totally disjoint from said primary subset of said first neighbor cell, the secondary subset of said first neighbor cell being partially disjoint of the secondary subset of said second neighbor cell when said first cell and said second cell are adjacent.