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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:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shalini Periyalwar, Ottawa, CA;
Andy McGregor, Kanata, CA;
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Corporation, Montreal, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
455442 ; 455436 ; 375200 ; 370331 ; 370335 ; 370468 ;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for progressive soft handoff of a mobile user from one basestation to another in multi-channel CDMA systems provide for progressively decreasing the data rate between the mobile user and a 'home' basestation while simultaneously progressively increasing the data rate between the mobile user and the 'new' basestation.