Patent ID: 7885232

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile communication terminal for a handover rejection in a portable Internet system, said method comprising: transmitting a handover request message to a serving base station and receiving a response message corresponding to the handover request message from the serving base station, said handover request message requesting a handover operation to at least one target base station; checking whether the received response message includes contents regarding terminal action instruction information; extracting the terminal action instruction information from the response message according to a result of the checking step; and executing an action according to the extracted terminal action instruction information, wherein the terminal action instruction information comprises retransmission instruction of the handover request message, a rescan instruction including the target base station set in the transmitted handover request message, a rescan instruction excluding the target base station set in the transmitted handover request message, a handover instruction into a random target base station and a communication maintain instruction with the serving base station, wherein if the terminal action instruction information is the retransmission instruction of the handover request message, the mobile communication terminal transmits a handover request message in which a target base station different from that included in the transmitted handover request message is set with reference to former scan information, wherein if the terminal action instruction information is the rescan instruction including the target base station set in the transmitted handover request message, the mobile communication terminal executes a scanning operation by including the target base station, wherein if the terminal action instruction information is the rescan instruction excluding the target base station set in the transmitted handover request message, the mobile communication terminal executes a scanning operation by excluding the target base station, wherein if the terminal action instruction information is the handover instruction into the random target base station, an initial network entry is executed via a target base station randomly selected by the mobile communication terminal, and wherein if the terminal action instruction information is the communication maintain instruction with the serving base station, the mobile communication terminal releases the handover request and maintains a data communication with the serving base station.