Patent ID: 9398497
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A base station including a processor and a memory operable to communicate, over a wireless communications link defined by a base station cell, with one or more mobile communications devices in a communication network comprising a plurality of cells having one or more of an Open access mode, a Closed access mode, and a Hybrid access mode in which the cell operates as a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell where at a same time, non-CSG members are allowed access, wherein the base station is operable to maintain cell history data for a mobile communications device, the cell history data identifying the plurality of cells with which the mobile communications device has been registered historically, wherein the cell history includes, for the cell, from among the plurality of cells, with which the mobile communications device has been registered historically having the Open access mode, data indicating that the cell has the Open access mode, and for the cell, from among the plurality of cells, with which the mobile communications device has been registered historically having the Closed access mode, data indicating that the cell has the Closed access mode; wherein the cell history data includes data indicating that the cell from among the plurality of cells with which the mobile communications device has been registered historically has the Hybrid access mode in which the cell operates as a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell where at a same time, non-CSG members are allowed access; and wherein the base station is operable to provide the cell history data to another base station or to an RNC via a base station interface or via a core network interface.