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Forward link based rescue channel method and apparatus for telecommunication systems

  • US 20020045443A1
  • Filed: 10/16/2001
  • Published: 04/18/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a communications network having a plurality of sectors and a mobile station (MS) having a potentially failing connection, the MS including a MS active set, a method for rescuing the potentially failing connection, comprising:

  • detecting the potentially failing connection;

    adding one or more pilots to the MS active set, each pilot corresponding to one of the plurality of sectors;

    determining one or more assumed code channels (ACCs) for use in the rescue;

    transmitting one of the ACCs from at least one of the plurality of sectors;

    at the MS, searching for one or more ACCs from the sectors corresponding to the pilots in the MS active set;

    at the MS, discovering one or more ACCs are receivable from at least one of the plurality of sectors; and

    continuing the connection at the MS when the one or more receivable ACCs are discovered.

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