Patent ID: 8730915

Claim:
A method comprising: determining whether a mobile device is in an idle mode; and in response to determining that the mobile device is in the idle mode: determining a length of a scan interval; determining, by the mobile device, a type of handoff-related measurement to perform for a different frequency band than a frequency band of a serving cell based on the determined length of the scan interval; performing first handoff-related measurements of first wireless signals from a first neighbor cell received at a first multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna resource of the mobile device, wherein the device is in communication with the serving cell, and wherein the first neighbor cell is in a same frequency band as the serving cell; tuning a receiver associated with a second MIMO antenna resource from the frequency band of the serving cell to the different frequency band, wherein the different frequency band is a frequency band of a second neighbor cell; performing second handoff-related measurements of second wireless signals from the second neighbor cell received at the second MIMO antenna resource of the mobile device, wherein the second handoff-related measurements are of the determined type of handoff-related measurement, the second wireless signals received at the second MIMO antenna resource concurrently with the first wireless signals being received at the first MIMO antenna resource; determining, by the mobile device, to decode the second wireless signals based at least in part on the determined length of the scan interval; decoding a second downlink message received at the second MIMO antenna resource from the second neighbor cell based on a determination to decode; and tuning the receiver associated with the second MIMO antenna resource from the different frequency band to the frequency band of the serving cell.