Patent ID: 6885852

Claim:
A method in a wireless communication device having a receiver, the method for mitigating a received power overload by transferring control of a receiver gain from an on-channel AGC system to a wide-band AGC system, in response to a large increase in a wide-band received signal power, the method comprising the steps of: measuring the wide-band received signal power; transferring receiver gain control from the on-channel AGC system to the wide-band AGC system, when the wide-band received signal power exceeds a pre-programmed threshold for longer than a pre-programmed delay time; and decreasing, by the wide-band AGC system after the transferring step, a front-end gain of the receiver through a plurality of gain steps of a pre-programmed size applied at a pre-programmed rate until the received wide-band signal power falls below the pre-programmed threshold.