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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2003
Kin Nang Lau, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Ali Masoomzadeh-fard, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Martin H. Meyers, Montclair, NJ (US);
Alexandro Salvarani, Edison, NJ (US);
Susan Wu Sanders, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Kin Nang Lau, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Ali Masoomzadeh-Fard, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Martin H. Meyers, Montclair, NJ (US);
Alexandro Salvarani, Edison, NJ (US);
Susan Wu Sanders, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of processing, in parallel fashion, messages from a User Equipment (UE) in soft handoff with a plurality of base stations of a wireless communication system. Measurement Messages from the User Equipment are received and stored in a message buffer for a defined period of time. Later arriving messages replace previous messages during the defined period of time. When the defined period of time elapses, the latest stored message is processed in parallel fashion in a processing pipeline with other messages for the UE and other UEs. The latest message is processed by first converting it to soft handoff actions and inserting such actions into a processing pipeline. A conflict table is generated during the parallel processing of the soft handoff actions to avoid the processing of messages that conflict with each other. Conflicting messages are put into a pending state and remain in such state until they are canceled by subsequent messages or the conflict no longer exists.