Patent ID: 8126462

Claim:
A method to perform a handover process of handing over a mobile station from a serving base station to a target base station in a wireless network, comprising: (a) allocating and providing to the mobile station a radio resource set for use by the mobile station to establish a target radio link between the mobile station and the target base station; (b) breaking a serving radio link between the mobile station and the serving base station; and (c) establishing the target radio link between the mobile station and the target base station using the radio resource set, wherein act (a) occurs before acts (b) and (c), and wherein in act (a), the radio resources set is allocated by the target base station, and information on the radio resource set is provided to the mobile station from the serving base station, when the mobile station initiates the handover process, the serving base station piggy-backs the radio resource set information onto a handover response message to the mobile station in response to the mobile station initiating the handover process, and when the serving base station initiates the handover process, the serving base station piggy-backs the radio resource set information onto a handover request message to the mobile station.