Patent ID: 8737997

Claim:
A method for processing a type of a local network over a base station, comprising: determining, by a Home evolved NodeB, HeNB, the type of the local network over the HeNB; and indicating, by the HeNB, the type of the local network to a User Equipment, UE, wherein: indicating, by the HeNB, the type of the local network to the UE comprises: during a handover of the UE from a source evolved NodeB, eNodeB, to the HeNB indicating, by the HeNB, the type of the local network to the UE in high layer signalling via a Mobility Management Entity, MME, and the source eNodeB, wherein the HeNB transmits to the MME an S1-AP Handover Request Acknowledge message comprising a Target eNodeB to Source eNodeB Transparent Container Information Element, IE, carrying a Radio Resource Control, RRC, Connection Reconfiguration message to be transmitted to the UE, wherein the RRC Connection Reconfiguration message comprises a mobility Control Information field in which the HeNB carries the information on the type of the local network over the HeNB; the source eNodeB parses the Handover Request Acknowledge message transmitted transparently from the MME for the RRC Connection Reconfiguration message; and the source eNodeB indicates in the RRC Connection Reconfiguration message to the UE the type of the local network over the HeNB.