Patent ID: 9392535
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of detecting a base station by a user equipment in a wireless communication system that performs a cooperative operation between heterogeneous networks, the method comprising: receiving, from a second type base station, information related to at least one first type base station to be measured; measuring the at least one first type base station based on the information related to the at least one first type base station; transmitting, to the second type base station, a measurement report in accordance with the measuring; receiving a command from the second type base station, the command instructing the user equipment to transmit uplink data to a first type base station of the at least one first type base station, the command being triggered based upon a load condition of the second type base station, wherein the first type base station and the second type base station use different wireless communication schemes from each other; and transmitting the uplink data to the first type base station according to the command while maintaining access with the first type base station and the second type base station, and wherein the user equipment supports both a first wireless communication scheme used by the first type base station and a second wireless communication scheme used by the second base station.