Patent ID: 8121093

Claim:
A user equipment for alleviating barred access while reselecting from a first cell to a second cell in a mobile communication system, comprising: a wireless module receiving system information broadcasted in the first cell; a storage unit storing the system information; and a controller configured to perform the following: reselecting the user equipment from the first cell to the second cell according to a reselection criterion based on signals from the first cell and the second cell received by the wireless module; determining whether a first barred access timer is running for indicating an access of a first service is barred in the first cell, in response to reselecting from the first cell to the second cell; stopping the first barred access timer and informing upper layers of a radio resource control (RRC) protocol about the access of the first service is allowed in response of that the first barred access timer is running; determining whether a second barred access timer is running for indicating an access of a second service is barred in the first cell, in response to reselecting from the first cell to the second cell; and stopping the second barred access timer and informing the upper layers of the RRC protocol about the access of the second service is allowed in response of that the second barred access timer is running, wherein the first and the second barred access timer are chosen from any combination among barred access timers relating to the service of mobile terminating access, relating to the service of mobile originating call, and relating to the service of mobile originating signaling, and a first duration of the first barred access timer and a second duration of the second barred access timer are in a predetermined numerical order.