Patent ID: 8055292
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. In a wireless communication system that provides service to access terminals, a method of setting a forward-link transmission power level for at least one access terminal, the method comprising: determining that a given access terminal is requesting a forward-link transmission power level that exceeds a first threshold power level, wherein determining that the given access terminal is requesting a forward-link transmission power level that exceeds the first threshold power level comprises (i) receiving a request from the given access terminal for a differential increase in forward-link transmission power, and (ii) determining that a sum of the differential increase and a current forward-link transmission power to the given access terminal exceeds the first threshold power level, the current forward-link transmission power to the given access terminal being a forward-link transmission power to the given access terminal when the request is received; determining that a number of other access terminals have each requested a respective decrease in forward-link transmission power level by an amount at least as large as a respective threshold amount, the determined number being at least one; increasing the forward-link transmission power level to the given access terminal by an incremental amount; and decreasing the forward-link transmission power level to each of the number of other access terminals by a respective decremental amount, wherein the sum of all the respective decremental amounts equals at least the incremental amount.