Patent ID: 9554314
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: upon movement to another coverage area from a current coverage area, determining, by a user equipment, whether the user equipment is in a coverage area re-selection state; determining whether Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) transmission resources are currently assigned to the user equipment in the current coverage area; executing, by the user equipment, a coverage area re-selection procedure when the user equipment is in the coverage area re-selection state upon the movement to the other coverage area and no E-DCH transmission resource is currently assigned to the user equipment in the current coverage area; and not executing, by the user equipment, the coverage area re-selection procedure when the user equipment is in the coverage area re-selection state upon the movement to the other coverage area and the E-DCH transmission resource is currently assigned to the user equipment in the current coverage area.