Patent ID: 8208933

Claim:
A method comprising: a neighbor-list server identifying a grouping of two or more macro-network coverage areas, each macro-network coverage area in the identified grouping having a respective associated neighbor list; the neighbor-list server maintaining in data storage a global list of low-cost Internet base station (LCIB) pseudorandom number (PN) offsets, the global list of LCIB PN offsets being global to the identified grouping of macro-network coverage areas, the LCIB PN offsets in the global list being reserved for use by LCIBs having coverage areas overlapping at least one of the macro-network coverage areas in the identified grouping, wherein at least two such LCIBs use the same LCIB PN offset; and the neighbor-list server populating the global list of LCIB PN offsets to the respective associated neighbor lists of the macro-network coverage areas in the identified grouping for broadcasting by those macro-network coverage areas of respective associated modified neighbor lists, wherein each such respective associated modified neighbor list includes at least one LCIB PN offset from the global list.