Patent ID: 7583981

Claim:
A method of controlling weighting of a mobile station in a communication system for transmitting the same data from a plurality of base stations to a mobile station on a first channel and transmitting other data from one base station to the mobile station intermittently on a second channel during communication on the first channel, said method comprising: in a first state in which the same data is being received from the plurality of base stations on the first channel and data is not being received on the second channel, a step of deciding weight in such a manner that first weighting is applied to signals received from respective ones of the base stations and performing prescribed control based upon the signals to which the first weighting has been applied; in a second state in which the same data is being received from the plurality of base stations on the first channel and data is being received from one base station on the second channel, a step of deciding a weight in such a manner that second weighting is applied to signals received from respective ones of the base stations and performing the prescribed control based upon the signals to which the second weighting has been applied; and an adaptive control step of adaptively controlling timing of transition from the second weighting to the first weighting when the second state has changed to the first state.