Patent ID: 7864735

Claim:
A system comprising: a) a base station controller adapted to schedule data for a mobile terminal during a soft handoff mode and deliver at least a portion of scheduled data for the mobile terminal to at least one of a plurality of base stations; and b) the plurality of base stations operatively associated with the base station controller, each base station participating in the soft handoff adapted to: i) receive the scheduled data for delivery to the mobile terminal; ii) provide coding for the scheduled data to generate a plurality of coded signals; iii) perform a transform on each of the plurality of coded signals to generate a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals, each of the plurality of coded signals configured to result in corresponding frequency division multiplexed orthogonal signals mapped into defined sub-bands in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed spectrum of sub-bands, the defined sub-bands not used by other ones of the base stations participating in the soft handoff; and iv) transmit the plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed signals with spatial diversity for reception by the mobile terminal.