Patent ID: 8462736

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless terminal in communication with a radio access network over a radio interface, the wireless terminal being of a type capable of operating in a discontinuous mode comprising at least one of non-reception periods between reception periods and non-transmission periods between transmission periods, the method comprising: receiving a message from the radio access network that measurements are to be performed by the wireless terminal on downlink signals transmitted by the base station or by the radio access network on uplink signals transmitted by the wireless terminal; and, as a result of receiving the message, and when the wireless terminal is in a discontinuous mode; changing the wireless terminal from the discontinuous mode to a modified mode to facilitate performance of the measurements in the modified mode, and wherein relative to the discontinuous mode at least one of following are shortened or eliminated in the modified mode: (i) the non-reception periods, and (ii) the non-transmission periods.