Patent ID: 8923211

Claim:
A method of processing an AccessGrant block, for at least one sector in an active set, comprising: receiving, at an access terminal, an AccessGrant; making, at the access terminal, one or more determinations, wherein the one or more determinations comprise: determining whether a carrier on which the AccessGrant was received matches an AccessCarrier in a public data of an Access Channel medium access control (MAC) protocol if multi-carrier mode is MultiCarrierOn; and based on the one or more determinations: placing, at the access terminal, the AccessGrant in the public data of the Access Channel MAC Protocol, adjusting, at the access terminal, timing of a sector that transmitted the AccessGrant, instructing, at the access terminal, a reverse control channel (RCC) MAC to initialize transmit power, and transmitting, at the access terminal, an AccessGrantReceived indication for the sector.