Patent ID: 7525945

Claim:
A communication method applied to a mobile communication system in a code division multiple access system for continuously transmitting uncompressed frames in a normal mode and intermittently transmitting compressed frames in a compressed mode, in accordance with transmission power being controlled with a transmission power control step size, said method comprising: at a base station transmitting transmission power control information to a mobile station, the power control information instructing increase or decrease of transmission power; and at the mobile station, receiving the transmission power control information from the base station; and adjusting the transmission power for the normal mode and the compressed mode with the transmission power control step size based on the transmission power control information, wherein, the adjusting step includes first adjusting for adjusting the transmission power with a first transmission power control step size for the normal mode, and second adjusting for adjusting the transmission power with a plurality of transmission power control step sizes that include a second transmission power control step size larger than the first transmission power control step size for the compressed mode; in the normal mode, transmitting the uncompressed frame including a predetermined number of slots continuously in accordance with the transmission power adjusted in the first adjusting step, and in the compressed mode, compressing the frame, dividing the compressed frame into a first portion including front edge of a frame window and a second portion including rear edge of the frame window to set an idle period, whose length can be expressed by number of slot, between the first portion and the second portion, the frame window being the same as a frame window in the normal mode, and transmitting the divided compressed frame intermittently, in accordance with the transmission power adjusted in the second adjusting step.