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Conducting searches amidst asynchronous cells of a communication system

  • US 7,206,298 B2
  • Filed: 09/06/2001
  • Issued: 04/17/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for substituting a full frame timing acquisition search with a partial frame timing acquisition search, comprising:

  • classifying a plurality of base stations into a plurality of candidate sets;

    determining whether the full frame timing acquisition search needs to be performed upon at least one of the plurality of candidate sets;

    if the full frame timing acquisition search needs to be performed upon the at least one of the plurality of candidate sets, then substituting the partial frame timing acquisition search for the full frame timing acquisition search; and

    if the full frame timing acquisition search does not need to be performed upon the at least one of the plurality of candidate sets, then determining whether to perform a synchronous search.

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