Patent ID: 6122266
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
During non-handoff operations, a method for communicating between a base station and an individual remote terminal of a CDMA-based communications network, comprising the steps of:(a) communicating between the base station and the individual remote terminal via a first subset of types of CDMA channels at a first sectorization level of a cell-site sectorization scheme; and(b) simultaneously communicating between the base station and the individual remote terminal via a second subset of types of CDMA channels, different from the first subset, at a second sectorization level of the cell-site sectorization scheme, having a degree of sectorization different from the degree of sectorization of the first sectorization level, wherein:a cell corresponding to the base station is simultaneously sectorized at (1) the first sectorization level for communications between the base station and the individual remote terminal using the first subset of types of CDMA channels and (2) the second sectorization level for communications between the base station and the individual remote terminal using the second subset of types of CDMA channels;the types of CDMA channels comprise one or more of pilot, sync, paging, and forward link traffic channels transmitted from the base station to the remote terminal, and one or more of access and reverse link traffic channels transmitted from the remote terminal to the base station;the first subset comprises one or more of the pilot and sync channels; andthe second subset comprises one or more of the access, paging, forward link traffic, and reverse link traffic channels.