Patent ID: 7010319

Claim:
In a system comprising a network and at least one mobile station (MS) for enabling communications with the at least one MS, the at least one MS having a connection with the network that is capable of becoming a potentially failing connection and the system for executing a rescue procedure for rescuing the potentially failing connection upon detection of the potentially failing connection, a method for computing a mean rescue transmission output power level of a MS having a potentially failing connection, the method comprising: determining a mean rescue receive power level for the MS when the MS begins transmitting during the rescue procedure; and computing the MS's mean rescue transmission output power level by adding a delta power level to a negative of the mean rescue receive power level, the delta power level inherently including an offset representing open-loop power control; wherein the delta power level includes a pre-rescue power delta computed by subtracting the MS's mean receive power level from the MS's transmit power level, the MS mean receive power level and the MS transmit power level measured at a time power control bits were received by the MS prior to detection of the potentially failing connection, the pre-rescue power delta including the offset.