Patent ID: 8717987

Claim:
A system for femtocell discovery, the system comprising: a mobile device camped in a first frequency range on a macrocell; and a femtocell access point including: a first transceiver configured to transmit to, or receive from, the mobile device an out-of-band (OOB) discovery signal in a second frequency range, the second frequency range different from the first frequency range; a second transmitter configured to perform transmissions in a third frequency range to the mobile device, the third frequency range different from the first frequency range and the second frequency range; and a third transmitter configured to perform in-band beacon burst transmissions in the first frequency range to the mobile device to trigger the mobile device to perform an inter-frequency scan for cell reselection, wherein the in-band beacon burst transmissions are transmitted at two or more different intervals, and the in-band beacon burst transmissions are transmitted at a first interval, shorter than at least one of the two or more different intervals, when the mobile device is detected via the first transceiver.