Patent ID: 8693321

Claim:
A method for mobile-assisted handover in a mobile communications network, the method being performed in a mobile terminal and comprising: accepting information related to an on-going data reception or data transmission from at least one data reception component or data transmission component of the mobile terminal; establishing, based on the accepted information, if the on-going data reception or data transmission enables reception of a unique cell identifier indicating a candidate cell for handover, wherein the establishing comprises determining if reception of the unique cell identifier is possible within a given time interval without halting the on-going data reception or data transmission; responsive to a determination that the on-going data reception or data transmission enables reception of the unique cell identifier, but that such reception is not possible without halting the on-going data reception or data transmission, selectively: halting the on-going data reception or data transmission; receiving the unique cell identifier of the candidate cell; and resuming, after the reception of the unique cell identifier, the data reception or data transmission; transmitting the received unique cell identifier to a serving base station of the network; wherein the accepting information related to an on-going data reception or data transmission comprises accepting information indicating resources allocated for the data reception or data transmission; wherein the unique cell identifier is transmitted by the candidate cell in regular time intervals; and wherein the establishing if the on-going data reception or data transmission enables reception of a unique cell identifier indicating a candidate cell for handover comprises identifying conflicting time slots among time slots scheduled for the data reception or data transmission and time slots for the reception of the unique cell identifier.