Patent ID: 8340671

Claim:
A method of performing a cell reselection procedure in a wireless communication system, carried in a user equipment (UE), the method comprising: starting a first reselection timer if a signal property value of a first neighbor cell with a higher priority than a serving cell is increased to above a threshold; starting a second reselection timer if a signal property value of a second neighbor cell with a higher priority than the first neighbor cell is increased to above the threshold; starting a first delay timer if the second reselection timer is running at the expiry of the first reselection timer; starting a second delay timer if a third reselection timer that is a reselection timer of a third neighbor cell with a higher priority than the second neighbor cell is running at the expiry of the second reselection timer; reselecting the second neighbor cell as a suitable cell if the second reselection timer expires before the expiry of the first delay timer; and reselecting the first neighbor cell as the suitable cell if the first delay timer expires before the expiry of the second reselection timer.