US 7,499,701 B2
Measurement reporting in a telecommunication system
Oscar Salonaho, Helsinki (Finland); and Kari Sipila, Vantaa (Finland)
Assigned to QUALCOMM, Incorporated, San Diego, Calif. (US)
Filed on Dec. 02, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/293,695.
Application 11/293695 is a continuation of application No. 09/622468, granted, now 7,003,290, previously published as PCT/FI99/00096, filed on Feb. 09, 1999.
Claims priority of application No. 980357 (FI), filed on Feb. 17, 1998.
Prior Publication US 2006/0084390 A1, Apr. 20, 2006
Int. Cl. H04B 17/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—423  [455/67.11] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving by a mobile station from a network a determination of at least one active measurement report trigger selected from a group of measurement report triggers for triggering transmission of a measurement report, wherein at least one measurement report trigger of the group comprises a base station specific offset value,
maintaining at the mobile station a list of base stations for which measurement reports are desired by the network for handover decisions concerning the mobile station;
monitoring at the mobile station properties of a plurality of radio signals received from respective base stations,
generating at the mobile station a measurement report comprising information about the monitored radio signals of the respective base stations when the at least one active trigger is met; and
sending the measurement report to the network.