Patent ID: 7133382

Claim:
A method for defining measurement gaps in a wireless telecommunications system comprising at least one base station and at least one wireless terminal, wherein gaps in a sequence of data transmission slots may have inadequate duration for a desired measurement of pattern parameters, the measurement gaps in a data transfer between the base station and the wireless terminal being generated by the method comprising the steps of: defining measurement pattern parameters which determine a generation method of a measurement gap for the terminal, and transmitting the measurement pattern parameters through the base station to the terminal, wherein a uniform measurement gap is defined for the terminal comprising measurement gaps formed by generating a first measurement gap composed of consecutive time-slots in the back end of a first of two consecutive time-slot frames, such that the last time-slot of said first measurement gap is the last time-slot of said first time-slot frame, and by generating a second measurement gap composed of consecutive time-slots in the front end of the second of the two consecutive time-slot frames, such that the first time-slot of said second measurement gap is the first time-slot of said second time-slot frame, so that the measurement gaps in the first and the second time-slot frames constitute the uniform measurement gap, and wherein the first measurement gap is generated by a first measurement gap generation method, and the second measurement gap is generated by a second measurement gap generation method that is different from the first measurement gap generation method.