IDENTIFYING RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS TO MOBILE STATIONS SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A method for granting a mobile station permission to attempt to identify a cell of a first radio access technology (RAT) while being served by a cell of a second RAT. The mobile station receives a list of neighbour cells of the second RAT. The list contains at least one identifying characteristic associated with at least one cell of the first RAT. The mobile station identifies at least one cell of the first RAT associated with the at least one identifying characteristic.