Patent ID: 7623885

Claim:
A method comprising: generating at least one signaling message at a network; associating, with the at least one signaling message, a packet-switched-specific power control parameter for a terminal operating in a dual transfer mode, wherein the signaling message comprises at least one of a system information 6 (SI 6 ) message and a dual transfer mode information message, and wherein the packet-switched-specific power control parameter comprises a maximum power control parameter; and transmitting the at least one signaling message from the network to the terminal via a circuit-switched, point-to-point communication wherein the at least one signaling message facilitates defining a maximum packet-switched output power level (PMAX) using the maximum power control parameter received via the at least one signaling message, and defining a packet-switched output power level P CH to be used as the terminal's output power level for packet-switched traffic in the dual transfer mode according to the formula P CH=min(Γ 0 −Γ CH −α*(C+48),PMAX), wherein: Γ 0 comprises an architecture specific power control parameter; Γ CH comprises a terminal and channel specific power control parameter; α comprises a system parameter broadcast on a control channel or sent to the terminal; and C comprises a normalized received signal level at the terminal.