Patent ID: 7194282

Claim:
A method for power control in a wireless communication device, in which method the transmission power of at least one transmitter of the wireless communication device is determined, wherein a power index is determined on the basis of the transmission power of the transmitter, at least one reference value is selected, said power index is compared with said reference value and, on the basis of the comparison, it is deduced whether there is a need to adjust the transmission power of the wireless communication device, wherein if the comparison shows that said power index is larger than said reference value, the transmission of the transmitter is interrupted, wherein said power index at different moments of time is defined by calculating the increase in the power index, and that at least a part of the calculated power index increase and at least a part of the power index increase defined during the previous moment of time are combined as the new power index, and wherein in said calculation of the power index a scaling factor, the number of active timeslots per time unit, and the relative power level used in each transmission timeslot, are used.