Patent ID: 6519456
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
In a wireless communication system including at least one base station and at least one base station controller, a method of performing softer handoff of forward-link communications with a mobile subscriber unit between first and second modulators of a plurality of modulators, associated, respectively, with a plurality of forward channels of a base station, the plurality of modulators each being located on a separate ASIC of the base station, the base station receiving reverse-link communications from the mobile subscriber unit on a reverse channel through a single demodulator associated with the mobile subscriber unit, the single demodulator assigns voice address to only those modulator elements that should accept forward-link communications associated with the mobile subscriber unit, the method comprising the steps of:assigning, by the single demodulator a voice address to the first modulator; assigning, by the single demodulator, the voice address to the second modulator; and, filtering a plurality of forward-link communication so that only the first and second modulators, accept the forward-link communication that include the voice address.