Patent ID: 9497670
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: H04J,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of for enabling data communication between a mobile station and a network including a plurality of cells each of which is able to communicate with the other cells of the plurality of cells, the method comprising: the mobile station maintaining a cell generated neighbor list and an association based neighbor list, the cell generated neighbor list being received from a first cell of the plurality of cells on which the mobile station is presently camped, the first information indicating a first subset of the plurality of cells which are neighbor cells to the first cell as well as information required to camp on each of the cells of the first subset of cells, the association based neighbor list being generated by the mobile station and including second information about neighbor relationships of cells of the plurality of cells discovered by the mobile station itself and not downloaded from any of the plurality of cells, the second information indicating a second subset of the plurality of cells which are neighbor cells to cells of the plurality of cells on which the mobile station was previously camped as well as information required to camp on the second set of cells; and the mobile station using information in the cell generated neighbor list and/or the association based neighbor list to camp on a cell of the plurality of cells other than the cell on which the mobile station is presently camped.