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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. 29, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NTT Docomo Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/005 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/005 ;
Abstract
A mobile station according to the present invention that is capable of connecting simultaneously to a plurality of base stations comprises a reception radio portion and TPC bit detecting portions, for receiving and detecting TPC bits (transmission power control signals) from the plurality of base stations during soft handover; a combining portion, for combining the detected TPC bits to determine a combination signal; and a transmission power control deciding portion, for controlling the transmission power of the mobile station based on the combination signal determined by the combining portion. A method according to the present invention governs use of the mobile station hereof.