Patent ID: 8744464

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting, by a device, a presence of a femtocell generated by a femto device; determining, by the device, that the device is capable of losing a connection with a macrocell due to the femtocell using same first resource blocks that are utilized by the device for the connection with the macrocell; providing, by the device and to a mobility management entity (MME) associated with the macrocell, a request for second resource blocks, to be allocated to the device, based on determining that the device is capable of losing the connection with the macrocell; receiving, by the device and from the femto device, information identifying the second resource blocks allocated to the device, the information identifying the second resource blocks being received by the femto device from a femto gateway and being received by the femto gateway from the MME, and the information identifying the second resource blocks being received based on the request, and the second resource blocks not being utilized by the femto device while the device remains within the femtocell; and maintaining, by the device, the connection with the macrocell via the second resource blocks identified in the information identifying the second resource blocks, the connection with the macrocell being maintained by the device based on the second resource blocks while the device remains within the femtocell.