Patent ID: 6928285
Filing Date: 2005-08-09
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. In a system comprising a network and at least one mobile station (MS) for enabling communications with the at least one MS, a method for rescuing one or more MSs having connections with the network that have become potentially failing connections, comprising: identifying the one or more MSs having potentially failing connections; transmitting a forward multiple-access rescue channel (RC-MA) from the network, the RC-MA including a rescue channel multiple-access synchronization message (RC-MAS) comprising MS identification and handoff information specific to each of the one or more MSs having potentially failing connections and a rescue channel handoff message (RC-HO) comprising a new active set specific to each of the one or more MSs having potentially failing connections for enabling the MSs having potentially failing connections to continue the connection; receiving the RC-MA at the one or more MSs having potentially failing connections; handing off the one or more MSs having potentially failing connections in accordance with the MS identification and handoff information; and identifying one or more sectors that were receiving a particular MS having a potentially failing connection with a higher signal strength than other sectors, and specifying those one or more sectors in the new active set specific to that particular MS.