Patent ID: 7245597

Claim:
An apparatus for performing a search excursion in a wireless communication system, comprising: a decoder for decoding a plurality of radio frames in a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) on a first frequency and a plurality of radio frames in a TTI on a second frequency; and a processor configured to extract an index from the first radio frame of the plurality of radio frames, wherein the index is related to a set of transmission properties, to store the index in a memory element, to control the search excursion onto the second frequency, and to control a return to the first frequency, whereupon the decoder uses the index to decode a subsequently received portion of the plurality of radio frames in the TTI on the first frequency; wherein the processor is further configured to ignore a power control command from a base station in order to implement an increase in a downlink transmission power level at least one of before and after performing the search excursion.