Patent ID: 9042899
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H04J,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining that an adjacent cell is a private cell; and sending, from a user equipment to a serving network node of the user equipment, a measurement report of the private cell that includes an identifier for the private cell, wherein the measurement report further comprises a one bit indicator indicating whether there is a match between the identifier for the private cell and an entry in a whitelist of private cells for which the user equipment has access so that the user equipment is a member of a closed subscriber group that has access rights to the private cell, and wherein determining that the adiacent cell is a private cell further comprises determining that the user equipment is a member of the closed subscriber group by reference to a whitelist stored locally in the user equipment, wherein the whitelist comprises closed subscriber group networks to which the user equipment is allowed access.