US 12,289,675 B2
Mobile radio device and method for selecting candidate base stations
Blanca Arcas Serrate, London (GB); Venkateswarlu Katepalli, Slough (GB); Krzysztof Dudzinski, Slough (GB); and Andrew Logothetis, High Wycombe (GB)
Assigned to AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed by AIRSPAN IP HOLDCO LLC, Boca Raton, FL (US)
Filed on May 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/824,519.
Claims priority of application No. 2107638 (GB), filed on May 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0386231 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/20 (2013.01) [H04B 7/18506 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile radio device comprising:
storage circuitry to store location information defining locations of a first plurality of base stations;
connection circuitry to determine a direction of a candidate base station of the first plurality of base stations using the location information, and to make an attempt to connect to the candidate base station of the first plurality of base stations using an antenna array configured to transmit a beam steered in the direction of the candidate base station, and to receive signals from the direction of the candidate base station;
calculation circuitry to generate, based on the received signals obtained while making the attempt to connect to the candidate base station, status information defining a connectivity characteristic of each of a second plurality of base stations, and to calculate a ranked list of candidate base stations from the first plurality of base stations and the second plurality of base stations; and
selection circuitry to select a next candidate base station to attempt to connect to based on the ranked list of candidates.