Patent ID: 8249601
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile station for use in a cellular communication system including a receiver and a processor operable to apply a cell re-selection procedure which includes determining whether the mobile station should change a currently serving base station, wherein the receiver is operable to receive from an infrastructure processor a list of non-serving base stations selected by the infrastructure processor which are suitable to be selected as a serving base station in the cell re-selection procedure and the receiver is further operable to receive via the currently serving base station a selection signal from the infrastructure processor indicating that the mobile station should select a particular base station in the cell re-selection procedure based upon the location of members of a talkgroup of which the mobile station is a member, and the processor of the mobile station is operable to apply the cell re-selection procedure to determine whether the mobile station should change the currently serving base station or to apply a handover to the particular base station.