Patent ID: 8457042
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer executable instructions for a computer implemented method, executed by at least one processor in association with at least one computing memory for processing a SectorParameters message in an Active State, comprising: receiving a SectorParameters message in a superframe number related to the SectorParameters message and communicated over a Medium Access Control (MAC); determining if public data contains the SectorParameters message with a same SectorID as the received SectorParameters message; comparing the SectorParametersSignature of the received SectorParameters message with the SectorParametersSignature in the stored SectorParameters message; determining if the received and the stored SectorParametersSignatures do not match; replacing the SectorParameters message in the public data with the received SectorParameters message; determining if the sector is a member of a Active Set; and returning a SectorParametersUpdated and an OverheadMessagesUpdated indication.