Patent ID: 8023471

Claim:
A method of communicating with a network in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an INVALID BSIC REPORTING parameter by a mobile station (MS) from a network through a packet switched channel, wherein the INVALID BSIC REPORTING parameter indicates whether Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) cells which have an invalid Base Station Identification Code (BSIC) and an allowed Network Color Code (NCC) part are reported; and performing measurement reporting signal strengths of neighboring cells by the MS using the INVALID BSIC REPORTING parameter and default values including a default value of a serving band reporting parameter and a default value of a reporting priority parameter when the serving band reporting parameter and the reporting priority parameter have not been provided from the network, wherein the default value of the reporting priority parameter is set to 0 to indicate normal operation and the default value of the serving band reporting parameter is set to 3 to indicate a number of cells from a GSM serving frequency band, and wherein the wireless communication system is a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) system which is based on a Packet Switched (PS) method.