Patent ID: 7609676

Claim:
A method within a communication device for preventing reporting of duplicate pilots within a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: communicating with one or more base stations; monitoring and maintaining a pilot set including: an active set comprising one or more active set pilots, a candidate set comprising one or more candidate set pilots, and a neighbor set comprising one or more neighbor set pilots; allocating one or more pilots not found in the active set, the candidate set, or the neighbor set to a remaining set comprising one or more remaining set pilots; providing a remaining set window around each remaining set pilot, said remaining set window having a size determined by an overall number of chips, said remaining set window being segmented by a plurality of chip intervals, each chip interval of said plurality of chip intervals having a corresponding remaining set pilot; and eliminating a remaining set pilot, from said remaining set, when the remaining set window around the remaining set pilot overlaps any of the active, the candidate, or the neighbor set pilots.