| US 7,548,759 B2 | ||
| Power controlling method during a soft handoff in a mobile communication system | ||
| Youn-Sun Kim, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Jae-Sung Jang, Kwachon-shi (Korea, Republic of); Ho-Kyu Choi, Songnam-shi (Korea, Republic of); and Hwan-Joon Kwon, Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 26, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/227,989. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2001-53021 (KR), filed on Aug. 30, 2001. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0045321 A1, Mar. 06, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04Q 7/20 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—522 [436/69; 436/127.1] | 15 Claims |

| 1. A method of transmitting signal strength measurements of forward channels received from a plurality of base stations communicating
with a mobile station at a soft handoff to the base stations from the mobile station in a mobile communication system, comprising
the steps of:
assigning a time slot to each base station; and
transmitting the signal strength measurements corresponding to each base station during its assigned time slot respectively,
wherein an indicator indicating a base station having the highest signal strength among the base stations is transmitted in
the transmitting step.
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