Method of managing use of channelization codes during soft handoff
AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.
InventorsRoland Johannes Guethaus, Philip Charles Sapiano, Mirko Schacht
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Abstract
In one embodiment of managing the use of channelization codes during soft handoff of a mobile station from a transferring network station to a candidate network station, a determination is made as to whether a field associated with an existing channelization code used by the candidate network station is unused and meets timing criteria associated with a corresponding field received by the mobile station from the transferring network station. Based on this determination, a channelization code for use by the candidate network station in communicating with the mobile station is assigned.
Claims14
A method of managing use of channelization codes during soft handoff of a mobile station from a transferring network station to a candidate network station, comprising:
- determining if a transport power control (TPC) field associated with an existing channelization code used by the candidate network station is unused and meets timing criteria associated with a corresponding TPC field received by the mobile station from the transferring network station;
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- assigning a channelization code for use by the candidate network station in communicating with the mobile station based on the determining step.
A method of managing use of channelization codes, comprising:
- discriminating whether one channelization code used by a candidate network station has an unused transport power control (TPC) field that meets timing criteria associated with a corresponding used TPC field of another used channelization code used by the candidate network;
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- using the unused TPC field of the one channelization code instead of the used TPC field of the another used channelization code such that the used TPC field of the one channelization code becomes unused if the discriminating step determines that the another used channelization code has an unused TPC field that meets timing criteria associated with a corresponding used TPC field of the one channelization code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.