Patent ID: 6636735
Filing Date: 2003-10-21
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
An electronics device for use in a mobile station, the mobile station communicating with a plurality of base stations in a soft hand-off mode, comprising:a receiving means for receiving a downlink signal from each of a plurality of base stations in a soft hand-off mode; a selection processing means for producing a measure of a signal quality of the downlink signals received from each of the plurality of base stations in the soft hand-off mode and selecting a base station from which a received downlink signal shows a preferred signal quality; and, a transmitter means for transmitting, to the plurality of base stations, an uplink signal indicating the selected base station, among the plurality of base stations in the soft hand-off mode, wherein the indication of the selected base station to the plurality of base stations shows a preference for receiving a next downlink signal from one or more base stations among the base stations in the soft hand-off mode with the mobile station.