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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:
Feb. 20, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Dean E. Thorson, Grayslake, IL (US);
Daniel J. Declerck, Lake Barrington, IL (US);
Joseph A. Tobin, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Dean E. Thorson, Grayslake, IL (US);
Daniel J. Declerck, Lake Barrington, IL (US);
Joseph A. Tobin, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 (2006.01); H04Q 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus facilitate soft handover in a CDMA RAN () based on a requested set of soft handover parameters from a plurality of sets of soft handover parameters associated with a corresponding plurality of radio configurations. A mobile station () can request a set of soft handover parameters associated with a radio configuration. Candidate base stations (BTS–BTS N) can be added to an active list based on the soft handover parameters.