Patent ID: 7002920

Claim:
A method for enhancing the capacity of a CDMA cellular carrier supporting traffic from a plurality of users, including a plurality of voice users and a plurality of multi-code data users, each user having an adjustable received power level, and the plurality of voice users having a fixed quality of service requirement, the method comprising the steps of: setting a quality of service requirement for the plurality of data users based on the traffic from the plurality of users and the voice user quality of service requirement; adjusting the received power level of each of the plurality of voice users so that their received power levels are identical; adjusting the received power level of each of the plurality of data users so that their received power levels are identical to the received power levels of the plurality of voice users; decreasing the received power level of each of the plurality of data users until their quality of service requirement is satisfied; and adjusting the quality of service requirement for the plurality of data users in response to a request from a new user to access the cellular carrier.