Patent ID: 8326284

Claim:
A method of triggering a handover of a mobile station in a discontinuous coverage radio network, said method comprising: transferring at a point in time a data volume via a first transfer zone of the discontinuous coverage radio network to a cache storage of said mobile station, wherein the data volume permits the provision of a service to the mobile station for at least the duration of a period of time, wherein said first transfer zone is the serving transfer zone of the mobile station; triggering said handover of said mobile station from said first transfer zone to a second transfer zone of the discontinuous coverage radio network only after said period of time has been spent with respect to the point in time, wherein said mobile station has been moved in the meantime from said first transfer zone to said second transfer zone; and performing the handover of the mobile station to the second transfer zone if a filling level of the cache of the mobile station drops below a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is specified.