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Method and apparatus for broadcasting system information in a cellular communications network

  • US 6,628,946 B1
  • Filed: 05/18/2000
  • Issued: 09/30/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of transmitting control information in a cellular telecommunications network including a first base station in a first cell and a second base station in a second cell, the method comprising:

  • transmitting first control information and second control information from the second base station in the second cell; and

    upon making a cell change by entering the second cell from the first cell and reading the first control information transmitted from the second base station in the second cell, the mobile station determining whether or not to read the second control information based upon analysis by the mobile station of the first control information read by the mobile station, so that the mobile station can use the second control information in the second cell without having to read the second control information from the second base station in the second cell when the mobile station determines that the mobile station is already storing the second control information that it received in another or previous cell.

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