Patent ID: 8639258

Claim:
A method for wireless communications, comprising: receiving a frame by a user equipment (UE); determining one or more idle periods in the frame; and scheduling one or more measurement tasks to be performed during at least one of the idle periods, wherein the scheduling is based on a priority of the measurement tasks, wherein the receiving comprises receiving the frame from a serving cell in a first radio access network (RAN) and wherein the one or more measurement tasks scheduled are selected from a list that includes measuring at least one parameter of the serving cell on a primary frequency, at least one parameter of at least one cell in the first RAN on at least one frequency other than the primary frequency, and at least one parameter of one or more cells in at least one RAN other than the first RAN, and wherein the UE is in a cell forward access channel (CELL_FACH) or a cell dedicated channel (CELL_DCH) state.