Frequency allocation in a radio system

• US 20060105778A1
• Filed: 11/03/2005
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Felix Wiederspahn
• Original Assignee: Felix Wiederspahn
• Inventors: Wiederspahn, Felix
• Application Number:
  US11/265,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20060105778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0453 Resources in frequency domain, e.g. a carrier in FDMA

Abstract

In a method of selecting a radio channel from a plurality of radio channels comprised in a frequency plan and assigning the selected radio channel to a mobile radio station in consideration of the current geographic location of the mobile radio station which is provided with memory means storing data representative of the frequency plan and of geographic locations in association with one another, the mobile radio station determines its current geographic location and dependent on its current geographic location bars the data of predetermined radio channels from the plurality of radio channels from being selected for use by the mobile radio station, and said mobile radio station selects one of the other radio channels the data of which are not barred within the memory and assigns same for use to at least itself.

Claims

1. A method of selecting a radio channel from a plurality of radio channels comprised in a frequency plan and assigning the selected radio channel to a mobile radio station in consideration of the current geographic location of the mobile radio station, wherein the mobile radio station is provided with memory means storing data representative of the frequency plan and of geographic locations in association with one another, the mobile radio station determines its current geographic location and dependent on its current geographic location enables the data of predetermined radio channels from the plurality of radio channels to be selected for use by the mobile radio station, said predetermined radio channels only being admitted for use at the determined geographic location, and said mobile radio station selects one of said predetermined radio channels and assigns same for use to at least itself.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein a radio channel selection once made and assigned to the mobile radio station is updated in consideration of the current geographic location of the mobile radio station by said station itself.

7. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the selection and assignment of a radio channel is manually made at the mobile radio station.

9. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the determination of the current geographic position of the mobile radio station is made by means of a satellite supported localisation system.

11. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile radio station performs a change of the currently used radio channel in response to a change of its geographic location after having transmitted information concerning the radio channel to be used after the change to a current communication partner.

2. The method of selecting a radio channel from a plurality of radio channels comprised in a frequency plan and assigning the selected radio channel to a mobile radio station in consideration of the current geographic location of the mobile radio station, wherein the mobile radio station is provided with memory means storing data representative of the frequency plan and of geographic locations in association with one another, the mobile radio station determines its current geographic location and dependent on its current geographic location bars the data of predetermined radio channels from the plurality of radio channels from being selected for use by the mobile radio station, and said mobile radio station selects one of the other radio channels the data of which are not barred within the memory and assigns same for use to at least itself.

4. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein a radio channel selection once made and assigned to the mobile radio station is updated in consideration of the current geographic location of the mobile radio station by said station itself.

5. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein alerts are created at the mobile radio station in response of the detected current geographic location.

6. The method as set forth in claim 5, wherein the radio channel assigned to the mobile radio station is inhibited in consideration of the current geographic position if the mobile radio station did not select and assign a different admissible radio channel after lapse of a predetermined time subsequent to the issue of an alert.

8. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the selection and assignment of a radio channel is manually made at the mobile radio station.

10. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the determination of the current geographic position of the mobile radio station is made by means of a satellite supported localisation system.

12. The method as set forth in claim 2, wherein the mobile radio station performs a change of the currently used radio channel in response to a change of its geographic location after having transmitted information concerning the radio channel to be used after the change to a current communication partner.

13. A mobile radio station, comprising a transmitter/receiver circuit which is connected to a radio channel selection means, and further comprising a frequency plan control unit and localisation means for determining the current geographic location of the mobile radio station, said localisation means being connected to the frequency plan control unit, the frequency plan control unit comprising a location coordinates memory in which data representative of predetermined geographic location coordinates are memorised in assignment to data representing radio channels, and further comprising comparison means which are adapted to compare geographic location coordinate data provided by the localisation means with the location coordinate data memorised in the memory and to bar any radio channel assigned to the memorised location coordinate data against selection by the frequency selection control means if said data match with the location coordinate data provided by the localisation means.

14. The mobile radio station as set forth in claim 13 wherein the localisation means is a receiver of a satellite supported localisation system.

15. The mobile radio station as set forth in claim 13, further comprising alert means and a timer, said timer being connected to the transceiver/receiver unit and being adapted to shut down transmission if after lapse of a predetermined time period defined by the timer after issue of an alert a change of the radio channel has not been made.

16. The mobile radio station as set forth in claim 14, further comprising alert means and a timer, said timer being connected to the transceiver/receiver unit and being adapted to shut down transmission if after lapse of a predetermined time period defined by the timer after issue of an alert a change of the radio channel has not been made.