Patent ID: 9661535
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04J,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method in a mobile terminal for facilitating the updating of a neighbor cell list associated with a first cell of a wireless telecommunications network, said list containing elements that identify other cells that have a neighbor cell relationship with the first cell, the method comprising the steps of: engaging in communication with a radio base station serving the first cell; while in communication with the serving radio base station, identifying a non-unique cell identity based on signals broadcast by a radio base station in a second cell; measuring a signal quality of signals broadcast in the second cell; reporting, to the serving radio base station, the identified non-unique cell identity and the signal quality; receiving, from the serving radio base station, an instruction to detect the unique cell identity of the second cell; interrupting the communication with the serving radio base station to receive further signals broadcast in the second cell in order to identify a unique cell identity of the second cell; identifying the unique cell identity based on the further signals broadcast in the second cell; and reporting the unique cell identity to the serving radio base station.