Patent ID: 7437160

Claim:
A method for controlling interfrequency handovers of a mobile station, the mobile station comprising a continuous communication mode and a combined slotted communication mode and measurement mode, the method comprising: changing the operation of the mobile station into the combined slotted communication mode and measurement mode for preparing an interfrequency handover, if at least a criterion specifying that a quality of a downlink signal relating to a channel on which communication takes place between the mobile station and a mobile communication system in the continuous communication mode is worse than a quality represented by a first target value, is fulfilled, and updating the first target value at first time instants of those time instants at which a second target value is updated by the power control manner of the transmission power, wherein the first target value depends on the second target value, the second target value being related to an outer loop power control of a transmission power of the downlink signal.