Patent ID: 8014342

Claim:
An adaptive method of searching for a cell in a communication system, comprising the steps of: searching for at least one cell in a first radio access technology, the cell being one of a plurality of cells having respective predetermined frequency channels in a band in the first radio access technology; and if at least one cell is found by the searching step, adapting a search for a cell in a second radio access technology based on frequency information relevant to the found cell in the first radio access technology; wherein the first radio access technology is different from the second radio access technology, and adapting the search for a cell in the second radio access technology comprises excluding, irrespective of respective priorities of cells in the first and second radio access technologies, at least one predetermined frequency channel of the second radio access technology that overlaps the frequency channel of the found at least one cell in the first radio access technology and including a predetermined frequency channel of at least one other cell in the band in the first radio access technology.