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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2000
Reza Shahidi, San Diego, CA (US);
Octavio Jose De Franca Lima, San Diego, CA (US);
Jen M. Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Long L. Duan, San Diego, CA (US);
Tom T. Sesnic, Niwot, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for introducing hysteresis into a hard handoff decision in code division multiple access (CDMA) communications following an initial hard handoff is provided. The method introduces hysteresis when it is determined that the communicating mobile station system clock is slewing. The slewing determination follows from a calculation of the rate of change in the round trip delay (RTD) in communications with the mobile station. A calculated RTD rate of change is compared with a RTD slewing threshold, where the RTD threshold is the assumed slew rate of the mobile station. Hard handoffs are suspended as long as the calculated RTD rate of change exceeds the RTD slewing threshold. A system and apparatus to implement the above-described method are also provided.