Patent ID: 7130627

Claim:
A method of maintaining neighbor list information in a wireless communication system, comprising: maintaining a separate neighbor list for each of a plurality of cells, said neighbor lists indicating neighbor cells and corresponding control channels; maintaining a central link-list database identifying, for each of said plurality of cells, the neighbor cells and corresponding control channels; receiving a neighbor modification command responsive to a change in a system architecture associated with said wireless communication system; automatically identifying which of said neighbor lists should be modified as affected neighbor lists based on said central link-list database in response to said command; automatically modifying a plurality of said affected neighbor lists in response to said command by performing at least one of the following: automatically deleting at least one neighbor relation from each of said plurality of affected neighbor lists in response to said command; automatically adding at least one neighbor relation to each of said plurality of the affected neighbor lists in response to said command; and automatically changing at least one control channel identified in each of said plurality of affected neighbor lists in response to said command; and automatically modifying said central link-list database in response to said command.