Patent ID: 8244250

Claim:
A method for allocating by a plurality of source base stations of a cellular wireless communication support infrastructure a temporary resource request identifier to a wireless communication device for accessing a target base station of the cellular wireless communication support infrastructure, the method comprising: identifying a list of temporary resource request identifiers associated with the target base station for use by one or more wireless communication devices requesting resources from the target base station, wherein the list includes a subset of one or more part time temporary resource request identifiers whose respective assignment to a corresponding grouping of one or more source base stations at a particular time is rotated between more than one of the plurality of corresponding groupings of one or more source base stations and wherein the list additionally includes a subset of one or more full time temporary resource request identifiers that are respectively assigned to one of a plurality of corresponding grouping of one or more source base stations; detecting a desire by a particular wireless communication device for resources from the target base station, while the particular wireless communication device is communicating with a particular source base station; and allocating a temporary resource request identifier, which is currently associated with the corresponding grouping of one or more source base stations including the particular source base station to the particular wireless communication device.