Patent ID: 9668202
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A communication control method for allowing a cellular communication system to cooperate with a wireless LAN system, the communication control method comprising: a detecting step of detecting, by a user terminal, that the user terminal is present near a small-cell base station; a recognizing step of recognizing, by the user terminal, that the small-cell base station is of a collocated type where the small-cell base station is disposed at a same location as a wireless LAN access point; and a scanning starting step of starting, by the user terminal, scanning for discovery of the wireless LAN access point, when the user terminal has recognized that the small-cell base station is of the collocated type and has not discovered the wireless LAN access point, in the recognizing step, the user terminal recognizes that the small-cell base station is of the collocated type, based on a collocation list about a small-cell base station of the collocated type, in the detecting step, the user terminal detects that the user terminal is present near the small-cell base station, based on location information included in a whitelist about a specific cell to which the user terminal has an access right, and in the recognizing step, the user terminal recognizes that the small-cell base station is of the collocated type, when a cell identifier included in the whitelist matches a cell identifier included in the collocation list.