Patent ID: 7937103
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. In a radio access network (RAN) of the type including an antenna system that radiates to define a plurality of wireless coverage areas, wherein, in each wireless coverage area, the RAN transmits at a forward-link power level, a method comprising: determining that a given wireless coverage area is transmitting data and that no other wireless coverage area in a cluster of wireless coverage areas associated with the given wireless coverage area is also transmitting data; and responsively increasing the forward-link power level in the given wireless coverage area; and wherein increasing the forward-link power level in the given wireless coverage area comprises increasing the forward-link power level in the given wireless coverage area from a normal forward-link power level to an increased forward-link power level, further comprising: making a determination that at least one wireless coverage area in the cluster of wireless coverage areas is transmitting data; and responsive to the determination, reducing the forward-link power level in the given wireless coverage area back to the normal forward-link power level.