System and Method for Communicating Radio Access Technology Information to Mobile Stations
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsJohanna Lisa Dwyer, David Philip Hole, Richard Charles Burbidge, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Maiyuran Wijayanathan
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Abstract
A mobile station incapable of communicating via a first radio access technology (RAT) and capable of communicating via a second radio access technology (RAT). The mobile station comprising a component configured to receive a list of neighbour cells of the second RAT. The list containing at least one identifying characteristic associated with at least one cell of the first RAT. A component configured to determine that the at least one identifying characteristic is associated with at least one cell of the first RAT.
Claims12
A mobile station incapable of communicating via a first radio access technology (RAT) and capable of communicating via a second radio access technology (RAT);
- the mobile station comprising:
- a component configured to receive a list of neighbour cells of the second RAT, the list containing at least one identifying characteristic associated with at least one cell of the first RAT;
- and
- a component configured to determine that the at least one identifying characteristic is associated with at least one cell of the first RAT.
An access node for communicating with a mobile station incapable of communicating via a first radio access technology, the access node of a second radio access technology, the access node comprising:
- a component configured to configure the mobile station to at least one of:
- determine that at least one identifying characteristic of a list of neighbour cells of the second RAT is associated with at least one cell of the first RAT, and refrain from identifying at least one cell of the second RAT associated with the at least one identifying characteristic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.