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Methods and apparatus of enhancing performance in wireless communication systems

  • US 7,142,864 B2
  • Filed: 04/23/2004
  • Issued: 11/28/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communications method, the method comprising the steps of:

  • operating a wireless communications terminal to maintain a set of communications quality information for a plurality of different wireless communications channels which can be used to communicate information between a base station and said wireless communications terminal, at least one of the base station and wireless terminal including multiple antennas, said plurality of different wireless communications channels including at least a first communications channel and a second communications channel, the first and second communications channels having different quality characteristics which are a function of first and second transmission technologies used to establish said first and second communications channels, respectively, said first and second transmission technologies being different;

    operating the wireless terminal to generate a signal as a function of the maintained communications channel quality information corresponding to at least said first and said second communications channels;

    transmitting said signal to said base station;

    making a measurement indicative of a rate of motion of said wireless terminal; and

    operating one of the base station and wireless terminal to select a communications channel for use in communicating to said wireless terminal as a function of the measurement indicative of the rate of motion of said wireless terminal.

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