Patent ID: 9118358
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A communications method, the method comprising: receiving a signal at a receiver, said signal including a first signal component received in a first frequency band from a first base station wirelessly transmitting to the receiver and a second signal component received in the first frequency band from a second base station wirelessly transmitting to the receiver primarily over a second frequency band and occasionally over the first frequency band, wherein each of the first base station and the second base station comprises a wireless communication station installed at a fixed geographic location, and the receiver is a geographically unfixed wireless receiver; determining a first signal quality indicator based on the first signal component; determining a second signal quality indicator based on the second signal component; and selecting at the receiver, as a function of said first and second signal quality indicators, between the receiver operating using the first base station and the first frequency band and the receiver operating using the second base station and the second frequency band; wherein the second signal quality indicator is determined based on information received at the receiver from the second base station over the first frequency band without the receiver switching from receiving over the first frequency band to receiving over the second frequency band.