Patent ID: 8249591

Claim:
A mobile device configured to obtain candidate information for one or more cells of a second Radio Access Technology (RAT) while operating in a serving cell of a first RAT, the mobile device comprising: for each RAT, a respective wireless access radio; a cell selector configured to, while the mobile device is operating in the serving cell of the first RAT: obtain, through at least one of the wireless access radios, a first set of candidate information from a message transmitted for the serving cell, the first set of candidate information comprising information concerning cells or frequencies of the second RAT that are provided as candidates for cell reselection from the serving cell; obtain, through at least one of the wireless access radios, a second set of candidate information from a message transmitted for a neighbour cell of the serving cell, the second set of candidate information comprising information concerning cells or frequencies of the second RAT that are provided as candidates for cell reselection from the neighbour cell of the serving cell; and consider the candidate information from the first set and the candidate information from the second set in determining a cell for reselection by the mobile device.