Patent ID: 8532658

Claim:
A method comprising: generating, for an access terminal at a geographic location, a neighbor list of first access points in a network, with the first access points in the neighbor list being within a communication range of the access terminal at the geographic location; wherein the first access points in the neighbor list have an absence of support for a communication feature to be accessed by the access terminal at the geographic location; receiving, at least partly based on the absence of support for the communication feature, a query for an update to the neighbor list to include first other access points that support the communication feature at the geographic location; determining, in response to the query, one or more second access points in the network that support the communication feature at the geographic location, with the one or more second access points being within the communication range of the access terminal at the geographic location; updating the neighbor list with the one or more second access points in the network that support the communication feature at the geographic location; delivering the update to the neighbor list to second other access points in a vicinity of an access point in communication with the access terminal; and instructing the second other access points in the vicinity to use one or more access technologies to deliver the update to the neighbor list to the access terminal as one or more overhead signaling messages; wherein at least one of the first access points in the neighbor list differs from at least one of the one or more second access points in the update to the neighbor list.