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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1999
Stanislaw Czaja, Cardiff, CA (US);
Kraig Anderson, San Diego, CA (US);
Infineon Technologies North America Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for power control during soft handoffs is disclosed for a multi-user CDMA system having mixed system types, such as IS-95A/B and IS-2000. The procedure includes modifying the Forward Power Control (FPC) and Reverse Power Control (RPC) processing, in order to maintain proper power control between a mobile station and two different base stations during a soft handoff. The mobile station maintains the forward and reverse power control while still receiving forward links from different generation base stations, and while maintaining the reverse link to only one of these base stations. Prior to the soft handoff the second base station suspends FPC and RPC processing. Once the soft handoff is complete, the second base station resumes FPC and RPC processing. Furthermore, the mobile station's initial transmit power level is set to be within a predetermined limit.