Patent ID: 8284652

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at a first mobile station a first component of a first signal transmitted by a first base station, wherein the first signal comprises: the first component that has been coded using a spreading code; and a second component that has been coded using the spreading code; wherein the first component is time domain multiplexed with the second component; receiving at the first mobile station a third component of a second signal transmitted by a second base station; wherein the second signal comprises: the third component that has been coded using the spreading code; and a fourth component that has been coded using the spreading code; wherein the third component is time domain multiplexed with the fourth component; decoding at the first mobile station the first component and the third component; wherein the first mobile station is in at least one of a soft or softer handoff condition with the first base station and the second base station, wherein the first component and the third component combined form a message, wherein the first component is different than the third component.