Patent ID: 8331943

Claim:
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to operate in a CDMA wireless communications system comprising a plurality of cells, the WTRU comprising: a switched beam antenna to generate antenna beams including a plurality of directional beams and an omni beam; a transceiver to operate in an active state for exchanging data with at least one cell using a selected antenna beam; a controller to control said switched beam antenna to maintain an assigned dedicated control channel with the at least one cell using the selected antenna beam when placed in a control hold state, said controller causing said switched beam antenna to switch to antenna beams other than the selected antenna beam for receiving signals from the at least one cell when the dedicated control channel is assigned; and a measurement unit coupled to said transceiver to measure the received signals from the at least one cell for each switched antenna beam, with the switching and measuring being performed when a reverse pilot channel is gated off.