Patent ID: 8165528

Claim:
A method of enabling an access terminal in a set of access terminals in a network to communicate with a private access point in the network, the method comprising: determining a first transmit rate of the access terminal for communication with the private access point; and causing the access terminal to communicate at a second transmit rate at or below the first transmit rate; wherein the first transmit rate is constrained in accordance with ∑ i = 1 N ⁢ P i AT ⁢ G i M ≤ Δ ⁢ ⁢ P I ; wherein AT comprises an i th access terminal of the set of access terminals; wherein P i AT comprises a transmit power of the i th access terminal of the set of access terminals; wherein N comprises the set of access terminals; wherein G i M comprises a path gain from the i th access terminal to a macro access point in the network; and wherein ΔP I comprises an interference limit for the private access point.