Active set management based on mobile station battery power

A method comprising:

• (a) a mobile station making a determination that a battery-power level for the mobile station is below a first threshold level;
• (b) responsive to the determination that the battery-power level is below the first threshold level, the mobile station reducing a maximum-active-sector parameter from an initial value to a first reduced value, wherein the value of the maximum-active-sector parameter indicates a maximum number of active sectors that the mobile can include in the active set of the mobile station, and wherein each active sector is a sector where service is provided by a radio access network;
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• (c) the mobile station maintaining its active set according to the first reduced value of the maximum-active-sector parameter.

A method comprising:

• (a) a mobile station making a determination that a battery-power level for the mobile station is below a first threshold level;
• (b) responsive to the determination that the battery-power level is below the first threshold level, the mobile station adjusting at least one active-set parameter affecting whether or not a given sector of a radio access network is included in the active set in effort to reduce the number of active sectors in the active set;
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• (c) the mobile station maintaining its active set according to the at least one adjusted active-set parameter.

A system comprising:

• a tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium;
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• program instructions stored in the tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor to:
• (a) determine a battery-power level of the mobile station;
• (b) use the determined battery-power level as a basis to set at least one active-set parameter affecting the number of active sectors in an active set of the mobile station, wherein each active sector is a sector where service is provided by a radio access network;
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• (c) maintain the mobile station's active set according to the at least one active-set parameter.