Patent ID: 8660528

Claim:
A method for a user equipment (UE) to operate in a mobile communication network, said method comprising: transmitting, during a beacon ON period, a beacon channel from a femto access point (FAP), the beacon channel in the ON period being staggered into a plurality of sequential ON/OFF durations, two or more of the sequential ON/OFF durations corresponding to an unbarred duration, and one or more of the sequential ON/OFF durations corresponding to a barred duration; disabling, during a beacon OFF period, the beacon channel; determining that the UE is not authorized to access the FAP; and in response to the determination: allowing, during the unbarred duration of the beacon ON period, the UE to access the beacon channel; and barring, during the barred duration of the beacon ON period, said UE from accessing the beacon channel by setting system information block 3 (SIB 3 ) to “barred” for normal service, wherein said beacon ON period is long enough to enable returning said unauthorized UE to acquire said SIB 3 , and wherein said beacon ON period is greater than a summation of macro discontinuous reception (DRX) time, beacon cell evaluation time, beacon cell's broadcast channel decode time, and serving channel evaluation period for said FAP.