Patent ID: 8675554

Claim:
A method for a wireless communication device to perform neighbor cell analysis, the method comprising: monitoring, by a receiver as part of a discontinuous reception (DRX) phase of a continuous packet connectivity mode (CPC), a downlink control channel from a serving base station in a plurality of time periods that are discontinuous; receiving, by the receiver, a control signal over the downlink control channel during each time period of the plurality of time periods; performing a portion of a neighbor cell analysis during each time period of a predetermined quantity of the plurality of time periods to produce neighbor cell analysis data, wherein the predetermined quantity of the plurality of time periods comprises two or more time periods, wherein the neighbor cell analysis data produced during any one time period of the predetermined quantity of the plurality of time periods is insufficient to complete the neighbor cell analysis, and wherein a completed neighbor cell analysis includes decoding a primary or secondary synchronization signal for one or more neighbor base stations, determining a scrambling code for one or more of the neighbor base stations, or measuring or determining channel quality for downlink control channels of one or more of the neighbor base stations; and accumulating the neighbor cell analysis data over the predetermined quantity of the plurality of time periods; and completing the neighbor cell analysis based on said accumulating of the neighbor cell analysis data over the predetermined quantity of the plurality of time periods.