Patent ID: 9629042
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: populating a neighbor list including one or more neighbors for a cell radio using neighbor information gathered for the cell radio, wherein the neighbor information comprises a plurality of neighbor information tables including, at least in part, a peer access points (APs) table including neighbor cell radios discovered by the cell radio in a grid for the cell radio using an Internet Protocol (IP) grid discovery process that comprises exchanging primary scrambling codes (PSC) information and cell identification information for the neighbor cell radios via IP communications; receiving a plurality of detected set measurement reports from a user equipment (UE), wherein each detected set measurement report includes, at least in part, one or more PSCs and corresponding signal strength information for each of one or more other neighbor cell radios detected by the UE; for each detected set measurement report received from the UE, performing a lookup against the neighbor information tables associated with the previously gathered neighbor information using one or more PSCs received in each detected set measurement report for each of the one or more other neighbor cell radios detected by the UE; for each of a corresponding PSC located in a given neighbor information table, comparing signal strength information for the corresponding PSC against a signal strength threshold; and updating the neighbor list to include one or more of the other neighbor cell radios based, at least in part, on whether any of the one or more PSCs received in any detected set measurement report are included in any neighbor information table associated with the previously gathered neighbor information and have a signal strength that is greater than or equal to the signal strength threshold, wherein the updating further comprises: