Patent ID: 7295536
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating with a wireless terminal, the method comprising: communicating between the wireless terminal and a first node according to a first radio configuration of a first set of radio configurations supported by the first node; identifying a second radio configuration available for a second node that supports a second set of radio configurations that is different from the first set of radio configurations; and simultaneously communicating between the wireless terminal and respective ones of the first and second nodes according to the identified second radio configuration using common channel coding including a common spreading code, wherein a first one of the first and second sets of radio configurations is constrained to radio configurations that are compliant with a wireless communications standard, and wherein a second one of the first and second sets of radio configurations comprises radio configurations compliant with the wireless communications standard and radio configurations that are non-compliant with the wireless communications standard.