Patent ID: 7917121

Claim:
A method of executing a handover procedure performed between an entity comprising a management plane and a data plane, and a Network Control Management System (“NCMS”) both in a single mobile station, the method performed by the entity within the mobile station and comprising; receiving, from the NCMS within the mobile station, a handover request primitive that requests transmission of a mobility handover request message to a serving base station; transmitting the mobility handover request message to the serving base station; receiving a mobility handover response message from serving base station; and sending, to the NCMS within the mobile station, a handover response primitive responsive to the handover request primitive, wherein the NCMS interfaces with the entity through a Control Service Access Point or a Management Service Access Point , and the Management Service Access Point is used for performing system configuration, monitoring statistics, and notifications/triggers and the Control Service Access Point is used for performing handovers, idle mode mobility management, subscriber and session management and radio resource management.