Patent Document ID: 7983187
Application ID: 12600671
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for providing load reference data in a CDMA wireless communication system with receiver diversity, comprising the steps of: measuring received total wideband power for at least a first receiver branch and a second receiver branch at a plurality of times; estimating, a plurality of times, a probability distribution for a first power quantity and a second power quantity, both being related to selected state variables of an estimation algorithm, from quantities representing said measured received total wideband power of said first receiver branch as well as of said second receiver branch using selected measurement functions of said selected state variables of said estimation algorithm; said selected state variables corresponding to cell power quantities; said selected measurement functions corresponding to said quantities representing said measured received total wideband power of said first and second receiver branches; computing a conditional probability distribution of a first noise floor measure based on at least a number of said estimated probability distributions for said first power quantity, and a conditional probability distribution of a second noise floor measure based on at least a number of said estimated probability distributions for said second power quantity; and providing load reference data based on said computed conditional probability distributions of said first and second noise floor measures.