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Method and device for preventing toggling between two zones of a wireless communications network

  • US 6,571,096 B2
  • Filed: 11/10/1999
  • Issued: 05/27/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of preventing toggling in a wireless network having first and second adjacent cells, the first cell offering services of at least a first zone, the second cell offering services of both the first zone and a second zone, the services of the first zone being different from the services of the second zone, comprising:

  • maintaining the services of the first zone after a mobile unit hands off from the first cell to the second cell; and

    switching to the services of the second zone after the mobile unit travels within the second cell, past the hand off point to the second cell, wherein the transition point to the second zone is offset from the handoff point to the second cell.

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