Patent ID: 8090378

Claim:
A method for configuring color codes to base-stations of a Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MSO) of a cellular telephone network, the method comprising: assigning a first code of a plurality of codes to a first base-station of a plurality of base-stations; calculating a distance between the first code and a second code of the plurality of codes; determining a maximum calculated distance from the first code to a plurality of remaining codes of the plurality of codes; assigning the second code to a second base-station of the first MSO when the calculated distance between the first code and the second code matches the maximum calculated distance from the first code; wherein a wireless coverage cell of the second base-station is substantially adjacent to a wireless coverage cell of the first base-station; assigning a third code of the plurality of codes to a third base-station of the plurality of base-stations; calculating a first distance between the first code and the third code; calculating a second distance between the second code and the third code; determining a first ordered list of available distances that correspond to calculated first distances from the first code to the plurality of remaining codes; determining a second ordered list of available distances that correspond to calculated distances from the second code to the plurality of remaining codes; assigning the third code to a third base-station, such that the distance from the third code matches a greatest distance common to both the first ordered list and the second ordered list; wherein a wireless coverage cell of the third base-station is substantially adjacent to a wireless coverage cell of the first base-station and a wireless coverage cell of the second base-station.