SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETECT LOCATION OF PHEMTOCELLS WITH PASSIVE ASSISTANCE FROM MACROCELL WIRELESS NETWORK Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC H04W48/16 H04W48/18 

FIELD: information technologies.

SUBSTANCE: method includes the following: (a) saving information in a data base, in order to detect location, of at least one phemtocell; (b) reception from at least one macrocell of information on UE location; (c) searching within a data base in order to define whether UE is in general proximity of at least one phemtocell; (d) access to a phemtocell using information of a data base, which complies with a phemtocell.

EFFECT: provision of phemtocell searching while preserving service life of a UE battery.

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