Patent ID: 8838035

Claim:
A method for controlling idle mode radio measurements comprising: receiving a broadcast from a base station that is a serving cell, the broadcast comprising one or more time measurement thresholds, each of the time measurement thresholds being a Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter, a first of the one or more time measurement thresholds defined for a first type of radio measurement, and a second of the one or more time measurement thresholds defined for a second type of radio measurement, the first type of radio measurement being different from the second type of radio measurement; determining if a radio measurement is less than a radio threshold; determining a time duration in which the radio measurement is less than the radio threshold; determining if the time duration is greater than the one or more time measurement threshold, the one or more time measurement threshold comprising a predetermined length of time; and upon determining that the time duration is greater than the one or more time measurement threshold, obtaining at least one other radio measurement from at least one base station that is a neighbor cell.