Patent ID: 8619713

Claim:
A system adapted to schedule data for a mobile terminal during a soft handoff mode and deliver at least a portion of scheduled data to the mobile terminal from at least one of a plurality of base stations comprising each base station participating in the soft handoff being adapted to: process the scheduled data for delivery to the mobile terminal; provide coding for the scheduled data to generate a plurality of spatially coded signals; perform a transform on each of the plurality of spatially coded signals to generate a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals, each of the plurality of spatially coded signals configured to result in corresponding frequency division multiplexed orthogonal signals mapped into defined sub-bands in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed spectrum of sub-bands, the defined sub-bands not used by other ones of the base stations participating in the soft handoff; and transmit the plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals with spatial diversity for reception by the mobile terminal.