Patent ID: 7949005

Claim:
A method comprising: scheduling a first downlink period for transmitting a first downlink transmission from a first base station to a first mobile device, and a first uplink period for receiving at the first base station an uplink transmission from the first mobile device over a frequency band, wherein said first downlink transmission comprises first downlink data from a radio-network-controller (RNC) commonly associated with said first base station and a second base station, wherein said first downlink at least partially overlaps a second uplink period scheduled by the RNC for receiving at the second base station an uplink transmission from a second mobile device, and wherein the first uplink period at least partially overlaps a second downlink period scheduled by the RNC for transmitting a second downlink transmission, including second downlink data from said RNC, over said frequency band from said second base station to said second mobile device; at the first base station, receiving said second downlink data from said RNC, and packet forming information corresponding to a packet of said second downlink transmission, prior to receiving said uplink transmission from the first mobile device, wherein the packet forming information is related to information selected from a modulation type, a forward error correction coding type, a space-time coding type, one or more modulation parameters, one or more control signals, and resource allocation of the packet; and detecting said uplink transmission at said first base station based on the second downlink data received from said RNC.