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Boosting a signal-to-interference ratio of a mobile station

  • US 7,242,958 B2
  • Filed: 09/08/2005
  • Issued: 07/10/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method comprising:

  • at a mobile station, attempting to decode an encoded data packet after each of one or more time slots in which the encoded data packet has been transmitted to the mobile station in a first sector of a cell of a communication system;

    during one or more of the time slots in which the data packet has been transmitted to the mobile station in the first sector, reducing transmission power in a second sector of the cell from a first power level to a second power level;

    when the decoding of the data packet is successful, transmitting by the mobile station of an acknowledgment; and

    in response to the acknowledgement, ceasing transmission of the data packet in the first sector and restoring transmission power in the second sector of the cell to the first power level in subsequent time slots.

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