Patent ID: 8320276

Claim:
A method of configuring a carrier mode, the method comprising: receiving one or more carriers in a configurable contiguous bandwidth, said bandwidth being configurable to include said one or more carriers in an adjacent spectrum range in an adjacent carrier mode or to include two or more carriers in a non-adjacent spectrum range in a non-adjacent carrier mode, calculating an imbalance metric representing a receiving imbalance over a set of carriers that comprise at least said one or more or said two or more carriers, said imbalance metric representing a difference between a first value based on received signal strength indication on each of said one or more or said two or more carriers of said set and a second value based on received signal strength indication on each of said one or more or said two or more carriers of said set, verifying, based on the calculated imbalance metric, whether a threshold condition relating to a current mode of said adjacent and non-adjacent carrier modes is satisfied, and reporting an event for triggering reconfiguration of said configurable contiguous bandwidth to switch the current mode between said adjacent and non-adjacent carrier modes, if the threshold condition is satisfied.