Patent ID: 8526395

Claim:
A method of using an interloping beacon to cause a call involving a target wireless device and a live beacon to terminate, the target wireless device operating on a frequency channel of the live beacon in a wireless network that operates according to a standard that employs code division multiplexing to define code channels in the frequency channel, the code channels including a pilot channel for a pilot provided by the live beacon and a traffic channel for the call, the method comprising the steps performed by a signal generator which generates the interloping beacon of: on the frequency channel of the live beacon, generating an overriding pilot on the pilot channel to which the target wireless device responds rather than responding to the pilot of the live beacon; and on the frequency channel of the live beacon, generating one or more overriding symbols on the traffic channel which will result in the call being terminated, the overriding pilot and the overriding symbol being generated by the signal generator only as long as required to cause the call to terminate in response to the overriding symbol, whereby causing the call to terminate does not cause another wireless device operating on the frequency channel to respond to the overriding pilot in a manner which is noticeable by a user of the other wireless device.