Patent ID: 7945263

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a second base transceiver station, an access burst from a mobile station with a call already in progress with a first base transceiver station, and requesting service from said second base transceiver station; electronically steering a beam of an adaptive antenna array of said second base transceiver station toward a location of said mobile station based on said access burst, wherein said beam of said adaptive antenna array exhibits gain in a first direction of said mobile station, and wherein said second base transceiver station creates an antenna pattern comprising nulls in a second direction of a second mobile station operating on a common RF carrier frequency; receiving a predetermined number of additional access bursts by said second base transceiver station; and determining, at said second base transceiver station, a set of weighting parameters based on said additional access bursts, wherein said set of weighting parameters is configured to produce said antenna pattern for said adaptive array.