Patent ID: 8027687

Claim:
A method of determining an access mode of a cell in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining whether the access mode of the cell is a first mode based on a cell type indicator, wherein one or more user equipments (UEs) in a particular subscriber group are only allowed to be accessed in the first mode; checking an existence of a subscriber group identity, if it is determined that the access mode of the cell is not the first mode by the cell type indicator; and considering the access mode of the cell as a second mode, if the cell type indicator is set to ‘FALSE’ and the subscriber group identity exists, wherein the one or more UEs in the particular subscriber group or all UEs in the cell are selectively allowed to be accessed in the second mode, wherein a cell in the first mode is a CSG (Closed Subscriber Group) cell and a cell in the second mode is a hybrid cell.