Patent ID: 8855094

Claim:
A method for reducing interference in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining information about at least one disallowed beam corresponding to at least one antenna pattern of at least one served user, wherein determining the information about the at least one disallowed beam includes: making a measurement of at least one reverse link from the at least one served user to at least one base station, wherein the measurement of the at least one reverse link includes partial channel state information at a transmitter; and making forward link measurements from a neighboring sector or a serving sector, wherein the forward link measurements correspond to one or more of a desired serving sector, a desired serving beam, a disallowed beam, downlink or forward channel information, an estimate of forward link information based on the measurement made of the at least one reverse link, and one or more combinations of any of the proceeding; making scheduling decisions, based at least in part on the measurement made of the at least one reverse link and the forward link measurements, for served users so as to avoid transmissions via the at least one disallowed beam, wherein the scheduling decisions are coordinated between multiple sectors when the at least one disallowed beam is a desired serving beam for a second user and the scheduling decisions are made to accommodate the at least one served user and the second user; and transmitting data to users in accordance with the scheduling decisions.