Patent ID: 9408026
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G01S,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of reporting hidden sector information from a base station node in a wireless communication system, said base station node being an omni base station node with an internal multi-sector structure that is hidden from the rest of the system, and said hidden sector information comprising sector information of said multi-sector structure that is hidden from the rest of the system and only internally available in said omni base station, and said method comprising: obtaining, in said base station node, enhanced cell-ID measurements associated with a first user equipment communicating with said base station node; formatting in said base station node, said obtained enhanced cell-ID measurements into information elements of a measurement report, each such information element comprising a plurality of symbols; retrieving in said base station node, hidden sector information for said first user equipment, said hidden sector information comprising an indication of an antenna sector of said base station in which said first user equipment is located; encoding in said base station node, said retrieved hidden sector information using at least one selected symbol of said plurality of symbols of said measurement report to provide a transformed measurement report; and reporting from said base station node, said transformed measurement report.