Patent ID: 7565151

Claim:
A method for adaptively assigning unique words in a communication system, comprising: logically arranging a plurality of cell stations into a first cluster, the first cluster having a first pool of available unique words; assigning one or more unique words from the first pool to each cell station in the first cluster; logically arranging a second plurality of cell stations into a second cluster, the second cluster having a second pool of available unique words; assigning one or more unique words from the second pool to each cell station in the second cluster; determining that a heavy traffic condition exists in the first cluster; moving one or more cell stations from the first cluster to the second cluster, wherein said second cluster is an existing cluster; redistributing the unique words in the first pool among cell stations remaining in the first cluster so that the one or more cell stations with the heavy traffic condition have more unique words; and redistributing the unique words in the second pool among cell stations in the second cluster so that each of the one or more cell stations moved from the first cluster has at least one unique word from the second pool.