Patent ID: 8433340

Claim:
A method for soft combining of wireless signals at a mobile station, comprising: receiving a first downlink signal from a first cell; receiving a second downlink signal from a second cell; measuring time offset values as time delay differences between uplink timing of the mobile station and downlink pseudo random noise (PN) sequence frame timing from the first cell and from the second cell; transmitting a report message comprising a system frame number (SFN) and the measured time offset values; receiving a first downlink data frame time offset from the first cell and a second downlink data frame time offset from the second cell via Active Set Update message; providing the first and second downlink data frame time offsets to a timing block; and adjusting timing of the first and second downlink signals based upon the respective first and second downlink data frame time offsets; and soft combining the first and second downlink signals in a soft combiner.