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Efficient paging operation for femtocell deployment

  • US 8,301,177 B2
  • Filed: 11/09/2009
  • Issued: 10/30/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A broadband wireless network paging controller comprising:

  • a wired backbone interface to communicate with a plurality of macro base stations and a plurality of femto base stations; and

    control logic to generate a page for a mobile station and transmit the page over the wired backbone interface to a select subset of all base stations, the select subset of all base stations including base stations that the mobile station is authorized to access, the control logic to select the select subset by accessing a database listing base stations that the mobile station is authorized to access, the control logic to communicate with base stations to maintain the database, the control logic to periodically query the femto base stations about subscriber group changes.

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