Patent ID: 6542741
Filing Date: 2003-04-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method of establishing a list of public neighbor cells for a private mobile communication system, said method comprising:scanning for transmissions from a plurality of public neighbor cell base stations a plurality of times; identifying digital control channels of said plurality of public neighbor cell base stations from said transmissions; forming a first set of digital control channels comprising those digital control channels with the greatest signal strengths from each of said plurality of scans of said plurality of public neighbor base stations; and selecting the most relevant of said digital control channels for said list by forming a second set of digital control channels comprising only those digital control channels with the greatest signal strengths from said first set of digital control channels, wherein said second set of digital control channels is formed by adding digital control channels of decreasing signal strength if the number of digital control channels in said second set of digital control channels is less than the number of public neighbor cells.