Patent ID: 8606322

Claim:
A method for configuring a first cellular base station to operate in a digital cellular telecommunications network, the method comprising: placing the first cellular base station in the digital cellular telecommunications network; detecting with a radio receiver at least one second operating cellular base station within the digital cellular telecommunications network; demodulating a first transmission of the at least one second operating cellular base station to obtain a first data stream; predictively modifying the first data stream to restore a periodicity thereof and create a modified first data stream; correlating at least one periodic portion of the modified first data stream to form an enhanced data signal; decoding the enhanced data signal to obtain information including at least the location area code for the at least one second operating cellular base station and a neighbor list of neighboring cellular base station scrambling codes; and configuring the first cellular base station to: have the same scrambling code as one of the neighboring cellular base stations to mimic said detected at least one second operating cellular base station, have a different location area code from that neighboring cellular base station to cause any cell phone to attempt to contact the first cellular base station, and refuse connection to said any cell phone attempting to initiate a connection with the first cellular base station to cause the cell phone to act like a beacon by repeatedly attempting to connect to the first cellular base station.