Patent ID: 8099097

Claim:
A method for handover processing in wireless communication for a mobile electronic device, which includes a wireless communication unit configured for communicating by transmitting and receiving a wireless signal, to switch an associated wireless communication base station of the mobile electronic device from a first base station to a second base station, the method comprising: a) acquiring base station information as to the first base station; b) determining a degree of necessity to search for the second base station that is other than the first base station, based on the acquired base station information as to the first base station; c) selecting some base station search conditions from among a plurality of base station search conditions stored in advance in accordance with the degree of necessity determined in the step b); d) searching for and detecting one or more base stations in accordance with the selected base station search conditions; e) determining whether to execute the handover processing based on base station information as to the one or more base stations detected in the step d) and the base station information as to the first base station; and f) selecting, upon determination to execute the handover processing in the step e), the second base station from among the one or more base stations detected in the step d) and switching the associated base station of the mobile electronic device to the second base station thus selected, wherein an interval between executions of the step a) is set based on a received signal strength of the wireless signal received from the first base station by the mobile electronic device, and the interval is set to be longer than a predetermined reference time if the received signal strength of the wireless signal received from the first base station is greater than a predetermined first received signal strength, and the interval is set to be shorter than the reference time if the received signal strength of the wireless signal received from the first base station is smaller than a predetermined second received signal strength.