Patent ID: 8543113

Claim:
A method for controlling cell reselection in a mobile device, the method being performed by one or more processors of the mobile device and comprising: detecting a mobile device operation as operating under a potential over-shuttling reselection condition in which the mobile device is triggered to switch from a serving cell to a target cell based, at least in part, on quality conditions of the serving cell in use by the mobile device; responding to detecting the mobile device operation as operating under the potential over-shuttling reselection condition by making a determination as to whether the mobile device operation is classified to be operating under an over-shuttling reselection condition based on pre-determined criteria that considers information about one or more cell reselections made by the mobile device in a given time period, wherein making the determination is further performed by (i) deriving a first value based on a number of cell reselections made by the mobile device that relate to the serving cell or the target cell and a total number of cell reselections made by the mobile device in the given time period, and (ii) comparing the first value to a pre-determined value; and preventing or delaying the mobile device from switching from the serving cell to the target cell in response to the determination that the mobile device operation is operating under the over-shuttling reselection condition.