Patent ID: 7127267

Claim:
A method in a base station transceiver subsystem for adjusting a forward link transmission power level to a mobile station in hand-off between the base station transceiver subsystem and a dominant base station transceiver subsystem in a code division multiple access network, comprising: receiving a forward link transmission power level of the dominant base station transceiver subsystem to the mobile station in hand-off; and adjusting the forward link transmission power level to the mobile station in hand-off responsive to the forward link transmission power level of the dominant base station transceiver subsystem, wherein adjusting the forward link transmission power level includes: retrieving a user specified adjustment factor and a user specified slope factor; and calculating a sum of the user specified adjustment factor and a mathematical function that includes a ratio of forward link transmission power levels of the base station transceiver subsystem (BTS) and the dominant BTS, the mathematical function including the user specified slope factor.