Patent ID: 7085582

Claim:
A method of determining a pilot transmission power value for multiple time-multiplexed data services that are code-multiplexed with a pilot channel from a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of time multiplexed data services; providing pilot information; determining a user performance value for each of a plurality of pilot transmission power values according to Q m = ∑ i = 1 l ⁢ ⁢ w i × β m ⁢ K i ( β m ⁢ K i + 1 ) ⁢ ( β m + 1 ) where β m is the m-th pilot transmission power value, K j is the number of rate-matched bits per power control group used for data service i, w i is the weight given to data service i, and N is the total number of data services; selecting a selected pilot transmission power value β m to use with the pilot information as a function, at least in part, of the plurality of determined corresponding performance values.