Patent ID: 7801531
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating with a network in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: performing handover by a mobile station (MS) from a first cell to a second cell; and performing measurement reporting signal strengths of neighboring cells by the MS after moving to the second cell using default values including a default value of a serving band reporting parameter and a default value of a reporting priority parameter for measuring the signal strengths when the serving band reporting parameter and the reporting priority parameter have not been provided from the second cell, wherein the serving band reporting parameter indicates a number of cells from a Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) serving frequency band that shall be included in the measurement report using two (2) bits and the reporting priority parameter indicates a reporting priority per the neighboring cells using one bit, wherein the default value of reporting priority parameter is set to 0 to indicate normal operation and the default value of the serving band reporting parameter is set to 3, and wherein the wireless communication system is a general packet radio service (GPRS) system which is based on packet switched (PS) method.