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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:
Oct. 05, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ahmed Saifuddin, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Qualcomm, Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 ; H04Q 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 ; H04Q 7/20 ;
Abstract
In a wireless communication system a method for power control in a mobile unit, wherein a variable size step is used to adjust the transmit power. The method compares a current power control signal to a previous one, and incrementally changing the step size for no change The adjusted step size is compared to maximum and minimum values to maintain a predetermined step size range. In one embodiment, a mobile unit includes a memory storage device and a comparator for storing the power control signals and comparing them.