Patent ID: 11895687
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 1:
2. The communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller is configured in combination with the receiver and the transmitter to:
receive from the mobile communications network an indication of an offset value for adjusting the received signal metric dependent on the type of the narrowband carrier,
combine the offset value with the received signal metric measured for each of the cells on the narrow band carriers of the type for which the offset should be applied, to form for each cell an adjusted received signal metric, and
select one of the cells on the narrowband carriers from the list of cells with the largest received signal metric or adjusted received signal metric to bias the selection of the narrowband carrier to be of one of the types of the narrowband carriers depending on the value of the offset.