Patent ID: 8503399

Claim:
A system for disabling tones within WiMAX signals to eliminate interference at third-party receivers, comprising: a base station for transmitting WiMAX signals to mobile devices; an interference manager for determining an interference level between the base station and a third-party receiver, and for determining one or more tones within a WiMAX signal to disable at the base station, wherein the interference level is determined based at least on one or more signals that need to be protected at the third-party receiver and on characteristics of the third-party receiver and the WiMAX signal, wherein an algorithm determines the one or more tones to disable based on the interference level, the one or more protected signals, and the characteristics of the third-party receiver and the WiMAX signal; and a base station controller for disabling the one or more tones within the WiMAX signal transmitted by the base station, wherein the one or more tones within the WiMAX signal are disabled prior to transmitting the WiMAX signal by the base station.