Patent ID: 8812002

Claim:
An information acquisition method to be executed by a mobile station, connected to a first radio access network of a first radio access technology, to perform acquisition of an information set related to a second radio access network of a second different radio access technology for enabling mobility to the second radio access network, said method comprising the steps of: receiving message instances, wherein a set of said message instances includes said information set for enabling mobility to the second radio access network; investigating said message instances to find counter information in a message instance among said message instances indicating the number of message instances the mobile station must acquire to assemble said information set, wherein the presence of said counter information logically means that the message instance in which said counter information is found is the last message instance of said information set; identifying, in relation to the message instance in which said counter information is found, said set of message instances that includes said information set based on said counter information, wherein said set of message instances is identified as the last message instance and a number of previous message instances according to said counter information; and collecting said information set from the identified set of message instances.