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Allocation of user equipment identifier

  • US 8,243,615 B2
  • Filed: 06/26/2008
  • Issued: 08/14/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprisingmaintaining in a base station a set of identifiers, each identifier of the set being at least temporarily allocatable to a user equipment for identifying the user equipment when the user equipment resides in a cell of the base station;

  • connecting a substation to the base station;

    extracting from the set of identifiers at least one subset of identifiers;

    assigning the subset of identifiers to the substation; and

    configuring the substation to respond to a connection establishment request of the user equipment by providing the user equipment with an identifier from the subset of identifiers assigned to the substation and to transmit to the base station information on the connection establishment request and on the identifier provided to the user equipment.

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