Patent ID: 9294974
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for a wireless user equipment (UE) device, the method comprising: camping on a first cell in idle mode; measuring a signal strength metric, a signal quality metric, and a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the first cell; determining that signal strength of the first cell is above a signal strength threshold, signal quality of the first cell is above a signal quality threshold, and SNR of the first cell is above a SNR threshold; determining that the UE device has been stationary for at least a first amount of time; increasing neighbor cell search periodicities in accordance with a first predefined factor based on determining that signal strength of the first cell is above the signal strength threshold, signal quality of the first cell is above the signal quality threshold, SNR of the first cell is above the SNR threshold, and the UE device has been stationary for at least the first amount of time; and increasing neighbor cell measurement periodicities in accordance with a second predefined factor based on determining that signal strength of the first cell is above the signal strength threshold, signal quality of the first cell is above the signal quality threshold, SNR of the first cell is above the SNR threshold, and the UE device has been stationary for at least the first amount of time.