Patent ID: 6985466

Claim:
A method to determine an antennae array weight set corresponding to a subscriber unit (SC) for cellular communications between the SU and a first base station (BS) of a system, the system including the first BS and a number of other base stations, the method comprising: transmitting a plurality of test pilot downlink signals from the first BS to the SU, each test pilot downlink signal processed with a different weight set than the other test pilot downlink signals, at least one of the plurality of the test pilot downlink signals comprising a CDMA pilot signal associated with the first BS, and at least one of the plurality of test pilot downlink signals comprising a CDMA pilot signal associated with one of the other, non-neighboring base stations; receiving a report signal from the SU for at least one of the test pilot downlink signals; and selecting a weight set from the plurality of weight sets based, at least in part, on the received report signal.