Patent ID: 7209760

Claim:
A method of at least reducing an effect of noise on a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring noise attributable to an interference source that may affect one or more components of the wireless communication system, the interference source being distant from the wireless communication system to the degree that noise arrives at the wireless communication system within an angular range characteristic of a point source; and performing at least one operation, as a function of the monitored noise, to at least reduce the effect of the noise attributable to the distant interference source at one or more of the components of the wireless communication system that are determined to be affected by the noise associated with the distant interference source; wherein the at least one operation to at least reduce the effect of the noise associated with the distant interference source comprises implementing a handoff of one or more mobile user stations associated with a base station in the wireless communication system that is determined to be affected by the noise associated with the distant interference source to another base station in the wireless communication system that is determined to be at least less affected by the noise associated with the distant interference source.