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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Stockholm, SE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370 953 ; 370 84 ; 455 332 ; 379 60 ;
Abstract
A method and system for performing macrodiversity or soft handover in TDMA radiocommunication systems are described. Half rate transmissions are used to provide additional diversity communication channels in systems having insufficient timeslots at full rate. The mobile station can receive the same information from and/or transmit the same information to a plurality of base stations to provide diversity combination and improve transmission quality. The mobile unit assists in making handover decisions by monitoring the signal strength of control channels transmitted by base stations in neighboring cells.