Patent ID: 7254399

Claim:
A method in a wireless communications device, the method comprising: (a) receiving data transmissions from a transmitting device across a distributedly controlled wireless communications network, the data transmissions corresponding to a connection with the transmitting device and occurring within a reserved portion of a communications resource, wherein control of the communication resource is shared between devices belonging to said wireless communication network; (b) detecting an interference condition, wherein the interference condition includes an allocation of the communications resource for a neighboring device overlapping with the reserved portion; and (c) sending a notification to the transmitting device, the notification indicating the presence of overlapping transmissions in the reserved portion of the communications resource, the devices receiving the data transmissions in the form of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals, wherein step (c) further comprises transmitting an indication of non-overlapping reserved portions of the communications resource for the wireless communications device.