Patent ID: 8682376

Claim:
A method of distributing information content to at least two user equipments, comprising: setting up a downlink channel common to the at least two user equipments; setting up at least two uplink channels, each uplink channel being dedicated to a respective one of said at least two user equipments; delivering the information content to said at least two user equipments over said common downlink channel; and controlling transmission powers related to said common downlink channel and said at least two uplink channels in a closed-loop fashion, wherein said controlling transmission powers in a closed-loop fashion comprises: receiving from the at least two user equipments common downlink channel quality indications over the respective dedicated uplink channels; adjusting a transmission power with respect to said common downlink channel based on the common downlink channel quality indications received from the user equipments; evaluating a channel quality with respect to each of said at least two dedicated uplink channels, wherein evaluating a channel quality further comprises: defining a time window; for each one of the at least two dedicated uplink channels, obtaining at least two uplink channel quality indications temporally separated within said time window, wherein said uplink channel quality indications are obtained by comparison with a respective uplink channel quality threshold; for each one of the at least two dedicated uplink channels, obtaining an average uplink channel quality indication from said at least two temporally separated uplink channel quality indications; and obtaining an overall uplink channel quality based on the average uplink channel quality indications with respect to the at least two dedicated uplink channels; and based on said evaluation, sending to the at least two user equipments a transmission power control command over the common downlink channel.