Patent ID: 9002356
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communication, comprising: receiving, at a network entity of a communication system configured to provide wireless communication service to one or more access terminals, a first handover message requesting handover of an access terminal to a cell; determining, by the network entity, whether an access mode of the cell is closed, hybrid, or neither closed nor hybrid, where a hybrid access mode is one in which different levels of service are provided to member and non-member access terminals; determining, by the network entity, whether the access terminal is a member of a subscriber group associated with the cell, wherein the determination is based on a subscriber group list associated with the access terminal; and sending, by the network entity, a second handover message to the cell, wherein the second handover message comprises an indication of whether the access terminal is a member of the subscriber group.