Patent ID: 9204346
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computing system for dynamically configuring a particular base station to broadcast at least one setting for controlling handover to a preferred coverage frequency on which the particular base station does not operate, wherein the at least one setting includes a start-scanning threshold that defines downlink receive signal strength, from the particular base station, at which a device served by the particular base station will begin inter-frequency scanning, the computing system comprising: a processing unit; data storage; and program instructions stored in the data storage and executable by the processing unit to determine a configuration state of the network, to select, based on the determined configuration state, a signal strength value for the particular base station to broadcast as the start-scanning threshold, and to configure the particular base station to broadcast the selected signal strength value as the start-scanning threshold, wherein determining the configuration state of the network comprises making a determination, based on network configuration data, of which of at least the following three mutually exclusive configurations exists in the network: wherein selecting the signal strength value for the particular base station to broadcast as the start-scanning threshold comprises (i) if the determination is that configuration A exists in the network, then selecting as the start-scanning threshold a first signal strength value, (ii) if the determination is that configuration B exists in the network, then selecting as the start-scanning threshold a second signal strength value lower than the first signal strength value, and (iii) if the determination is that configuration C exists in the network, then selecting as the start-scanning threshold a third signal strength value lower than the second signal strength value.