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Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2005
Applicants:

Thomas Malcolm Chapman, Southampton, GB;

David Randall, Romsey, GB;

Inventors:

Thomas Malcolm Chapman, Southampton, GB;

David Randall, Romsey, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04Q 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A mobile terminal selects neighbor cell(s) to use in receiving a broadcast or multicast by deriving an estimate of cell quality for each neighbor cell; comparing the estimated quality with a minimum acceptable quality; and choosing those neighbor cells having the highest quality from the acceptable neighbor cells. The estimate of cell quality is based on a parameter of the difference between a common pilot channel transmit power and a secondary common control physical channel transmit power that is transmitted to the mobile terminal on a multimedia broadcast multicast control channel.


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