Patent ID: 8417244

Claim:
A method in a network that includes a user equipment, the method comprising: detecting, by the user equipment, poor coverage associated with a source radio access technology (RAT) with which the user equipment is connected; connecting the user equipment to a target RAT when the poor coverage is detected; measuring, by the user equipment, signal strength and/or signal quality of the source RAT for a time period after the user equipment connects to the target RAT; sending, by the user equipment and based on the measurements, one or more measurement reports to the target RAT based on the measured signal strength and/or signal quality; communicating information based on the one or more measurement reports of the user equipment from the target RAT to the source RAT; and determining, by the source RAT, based on the measured signal strength and/or signal quality of the source RAT indicated by the information received from the target RAT, whether a handover to the target RAT was triggered too early.