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Fine grain downlink active set control

US7818001B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 25, 2005
Grant dateOct 19, 2010
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Expiry dateMar 25, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W48/08
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An active set of base stations may be controlled based on whether data is unavailable at base stations within the active set. The base station may transmit an indicator indicating whether data is unavailable at the base station and/or a mobile station may monitor a channel characteristic of at least a portion of a channel between the base station and the mobile station.

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