Patent ID: 8805369

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory including computer program instructions, the memory and the computer program instructions being configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: perform signal quality measurements for a plurality of cells served by a device operative in a wireless communications network that is not using soft handovers, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform bidirectional communication operations in the wireless communications network, wherein the performed signal quality measurements yield measurement results for the plurality of cells; transmit at least one indication to the device, wherein the at least one indication comprises at least one of the measurement results and a combination of the measurement results; and receive, from the device, a plurality of signals in the plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of signals are received by the apparatus at a same time period and in cells at a same frequency with a same channel coding via shared data channels, and wherein the at least one indication is used by the device to formulate the plurality of signals.