Patent ID: 8565769

Claim:
A method for managing neighboring cell information, comprising: sending a notification message by a radio network controller to User Equipment (UE), and including an indication which notifies the UE to measure inter-frequency cells which are not in an inter-frequency neighboring cell list into the notification message by the radio network controller; after receiving the notification message, measuring, by the UE, the inter-frequency cells, which are not in the inter-frequency neighboring cell list, indicated in the notification message, and report a measurement result by the UE; wherein the step of including an indication which notifies the UE to measure inter-frequency cells which are not in an inter-frequency neighboring cell list into the notification message comprises: adding an Automatic Neighbor Relationship Function (ANRF) information element to the notification message, for instructing the UE to measure the inter-frequency cells which are not in the inter-frequency neighboring cell list or inter-system cells which are not in an inter-system neighboring cell list; and wherein the notification message further comprises an information unit which indicates cells required to be reported; the information unit indicates one of report modes as follows: only report the inter-frequency detected-set cells; only report the inter-frequency monitored-set cells; report the inter-frequency detected-set cells and/or the inter-frequency monitored-set cells; report the inter-frequency virtual-active-set cells and the inter-frequency detected-set cells in pairs; report the inter-frequency virtual-active-set cells and the inter-frequency monitored-set cells in pairs; report the inter-frequency virtual-active-set cells and a set of the inter-frequency detected-set cells and the inter-frequency monitored-set cells in pairs.