Patent ID: 8248923

Claim:
A method for establishing an admission policy for an access point base station, the method comprising: the access point base station connecting to a service provider, wherein the access point base station provides wireless communication in a local area for one or more access terminals, and wherein the service provider provides wireless communication in a macro area; the access point base station transmitting an activation request message for activating the access point base station to the service provider; in response to the activation request message, the access point base station receiving an assignment message comprising one or more provisioning parameters for the access point base station, wherein the one or more provisioning parameters comprise: a first parameter which specifies an admission policy mode of the access point base station, wherein the admission policy mode specifies one or more of open, restricted, or private access to resources of the access point base station; and the access point base station storing the one or more provisioning parameters; wherein the access point base station is configured to subsequently: receive a service request from a service-requesting access terminal; and provide access to the service-requesting access terminal based on the one or more stored provisioning parameters.