Patent ID: 7769384

Claim:
A method for receiving information in a mobile station associated with a handover operation in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, from the mobile station, a handover request message to a serving base station, wherein the handover request message causes the serving base station to communicate to a target base station an identification of the mobile station, first information used by the target base station for preparing the handover operation of the mobile station and second information related to maintaining service flows which are admitted through a negotiation procedure between the mobile station and the serving base station and which are currently provided by the serving base station to the mobile station, wherein the serving base station periodically transmits third information regarding at least one of the admitted service flows with quality of service (QoS) information for the at least one of the admitted service flows, wherein the second information comprises service flow identifiers (SFIDs) for each of the admitted service flows and QoS parameter sets for each of the admitted service flows; and receiving, at the mobile station, a handover response message from the serving base station in response to the handover request message, the handover response message comprising timing information for the handover operation of the mobile station and fourth information including a first indication that no service is possible for the mobile station, a second indication that some service is available for one or more of the service flows admitted to the mobile station, a third indication that a medium access control (MAC) connection can be established for each of the admitted service flows with the QoS information specified by each corresponding one of the QoS parameter sets or a fourth indication that no service level prediction is available.