Patent ID: 7639641
Filing Date: 2009-12-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: in at least one network control mode of operation, determining in a mobile station if a cell to which the mobile station is currently assigned has a first type of broadcast control channel; and if the cell does have the first type of broadcast control channel, sending a packet measurement report message to a network for reporting on neighbour cells identified in a list received from the first type of broadcast control channel; if the cell does not have the first type of broadcast control channel, sending a packet measurement report message to the network for reporting on neighbour cells identified in a list received from a second type of broadcast control channel, where the type of list is one of implicitly specified by the packet measurement report message or is explicitly specified by the packet measurement report message, where the neighbor cell list is implicitly specified by the packet measurement report message by casting the message in a format of an earlier version of the packet measurement report message that by default implies the type of list.