Patent ID: 7826802

Claim:
An apparatus for estimating a size of reverse link resources provided by a base-station transceiver system (BTS), comprising: means for performing a first measurement of a first signal strength received at the BTS; means for performing, subsequent to the first measurement, a second measurement of a second signal strength received at the BTS; means for performing, subsequent to the second measurement, a third measurement of a third signal strength received at the BTS; means for comparing the first measurement with the second measurement so as to determine an initial minimum signal strength; means for adding at a predetermined time an aging value to the initial minimum signal strength so as to form an updated minimum signal strength; means for forming a comparison between the updated minimum signal strength and the third measurement; means for determining from the comparison a minimum of the updated minimum signal strength and the third measurement to be a minimum received signal strength; and means for determining the size of the reverse link resources provided by the BTS in response to the minimum received signal strength.