Patent ID: 8811198

Claim:
A method for mitigating reverse link interference in a wireless communication environment, comprising: monitoring reverse link interference at an affected base station caused by an access terminal served by a disparate base station; transmitting interference-overload indications as a function of the monitored reverse link interference to the access terminal served by the disparate base station to trigger the access terminal to report an overload condition to the disparate base station to cause the disparate base station to inhibit use of a reserved subset of resources for transmission by the access terminal in order to mitigate interference to the affected base station; scheduling at least one disparate access terminal served by the affected base station to transmit utilizing the reserved subset of resources; and explicitly indicating a condition of persistent and severe interference overload to the access terminal by utilizing at least one of a dedicated interference control channel, an embedded bit, and a bit employed for modulation or scrambling.