Patent ID: 7970399

Claim:
A method for enabling improved handover of a user equipment communicating in a first radio access network utilizing a first radio access technology (RAT), said method comprising: measuring, at said user equipment, a first parameter for a plurality of neighboring cells of at least a second radio access network utilizing WCDMA, measuring at least a second parameter for said plurality of cells of said second network; reporting said first parameter and second parameter to a node in said first network and initiating handover to one of said plurality of cells in said second network based on both of said first and second measured parameters, and wherein both the first and the second parameter are reported simultaneously and said first parameter is reported according to one of a limited range of values, and said second parameter is reported in the same field in a Measurement Report message using a limited value range, whereby each first parameter value is reported together with one of a plurality of possible limited value ranges for said second parameter.