System for performing handoffs using location information for a wireless unit
CA 2316440 A1 · Owner: Hanson, Kathryn W. · Inventors: Anderson, Carl Richard; Tobias, Jonathan Michael; Hanson, Kathryn W.
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A system for performing a handoff of a wireless unit uses location information for the wireless unit to determine whether to handoff the wireless unit and/or to which, base station to handoff the wireless unit. For example a wireless unit can , have a, location system such as a global positioning system (GPS) which determines , the, location of the wireless unit. The wireless unit can obtain location information for the, wireless unit and provide the location information to the serving base station. From, the location information the serving base station can determine that the wireless unit, is leaving the coverage area of the serving base station and may need to be handed, off. The …
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- Filed August 18, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 18, 2020.
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