Patent ID: 9480032
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method implementable in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving, at a receiver that is implemented at least partially in hardware, a plurality of signal transmissions over a communication channel, the plurality of signal transmissions being transmitted using a plurality of transmit powers, each transmit power sharing a common transmit power term unknown to the receiver and a plurality of signal-specific power offsets known to the receiver; measuring received power at the receiver; subtracting a corresponding known power offset from the measured received signal power, resulting in a corresponding estimate of the common unknown power term, thereby resulting in a plurality of estimates of the common transmit power term; estimating a refined common transmit power term from the plurality of estimates of the common transmit power term; obtaining a plurality of refined measured received signal powers by adding the plurality of signal-specific power offsets to the refined common power term; and adapting, based on the refined common transmit power term, a functionality of the wireless communication system.