Patent ID: 8208925

Claim:
A method for handover in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving, at a user equipment (UE), information regarding a neighbor list or a search algorithm to identify target systems for a handover; transmitting, from the UE, a request for discontinuous reception (DRX) to facilitate a search for a target system based on the received information regarding the neighbor list or the search algorithm to identify target systems for the handover; receiving a DRX grant in response to the request for DRX to facilitate the search for the target system based on the received information regarding the neighbor list or the search algorithm to identify target systems for the handover; initiating the search for the target system in accordance with the DRX grant utilizing the received information regarding the neighbor list or the search algorithm to identify target systems for the handover; and transmitting a handover request based on a result of the search for the target system.