Wireless terminals and methods employing diverse reception path measurements in transmission gaps

摘要

A communications session, e.g., a call, is established between the wireless terminal and a base station. Reception of at least one channel over respective diverse reception paths in the wireless terminal is measured during at least one transmission gap in the communications session. The at least one transmission gap may include, for example, a handover candidate channel evaluation transmission gap and/or an interfrequency measurement gap. Measurement of the selection diverse reception paths may be preceded by transitioning to a compressed mode of communications between the base station and the terminal, and the at least one transmission gap may include a transmission gap associated with the compressed mode.