Patent ID: 6999778

Claim:
In a system comprising a mobile station (MS) and a network of base stations (BSs) communicatively couplable to the MS for establishing connections and maintaining communication channels between them, one or more of the BSs capable of transmitting a unique pilot signal and being used as a reference BS, the MS capable of selecting one of the BSs as the reference BS for use as a timing reference and measuring pseudo-noise (PN) phase offsets for the pilot signals transmitted from non-reference BSs, a method of generating pilot phase measurements (PPMs) for reporting PN phase offsets, comprising: measuring a first PN phase offset of a pilot signal transmitted from a non-reference BS and received at the MS, and reporting the first PN phase offset in a first PPM; predicting whether the first PN phase offset is an optimal path PN phase offset; and if the first PN phase offset is not predicted to be the optimal path PN phase offset, providing the MS with information regarding PN phase offsets for a next measurement, re-measuring the PN phase offset at the MS in accordance with the information, and reporting one or more improved path PN phase offsets in a second PPM.