Patent ID: 8185118

Claim:
A method for requesting a base station to serve a mobile terminal, the base station being a base station of a wireless telecommunication network, the mobile terminal being served by another base station of the wireless telecommunication network, wherein the method, executed by the mobile terminal which requests to be served by the base station, comprises: receiving from the base station by which the mobile terminal is currently being served, a first message comprising at least an identifier of the base station by which the mobile terminal is currently being served, and an identifier of the mobile terminal; transferring to the base station the mobile terminal requests to be served by, a second message comprising at least the identifier of the base station by which the mobile terminal is currently being served, and the identifier of the mobile terminal; selecting third base stations; memorizing the identifiers of the selected base stations; and configuring the mobile terminal in a first state wherein the transfer of signals is interrupted, wherein, the second message comprises the identifiers of the base stations ordered according to the order of which the mobile terminal has selected the base stations, and the third base stations are selected when the mobile terminal is configured in the state wherein the transfer of signals is interrupted.