Patent ID: 7555300

Claim:
A personal base station configured to connect to the Internet and establish a small area of wireless coverage comprising: means for controlling interference with neighboring personal base stations using a timeslot management mechanism that is configured to add and delete timeslots by selecting non-interfering timeslots for future service requests, to manage timeslot power by decreasing power on interfering timeslots and increasing power on non-interfering timeslots, and to synchronize timeslots with neighboring personal base stations to avoid interference associated with timeslot frequency drift, wherein interference is tracked using a short-term interference database and a long-term interference database, and further wherein the personal base station at least partially populates the short-term interference database and/or the long-term interference database while operating in a mobile station mode, the short-term interference database to track interference caused by mobile services provided by neighboring personal base stations and the long-term interference database to be populated utilizing information obtained from a Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH) while the personal base station is on mobile station mode by detecting interfering neighboring personal base stations on one or more time slots, wherein cell framing is recalibrated so that interference is detected in a different time slot.