SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20080222021A1
• Filed: 03/05/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Anansi Networks, Inc. (Spectrum Bridge, Inc.)
• Inventors: Koos, William W., Stanforth, Peter, Koos, Larry W., Hamilla, Joseph M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,958,041 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06395 Quality analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/60 Business processes related to postal services shipping G06Q10/083; franking apparatus G07B17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/27 between access points
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/90 Financial instruments for climate change mitigation, e.g. environmental taxes, subsidies or financing

Abstract

Transferring spectrum use rights may include ascertaining information regarding available spectrum for use in wireless communications. A request for spectrum use from a spectrum user system may be matched with available spectrum. A spectrum certificate may be issued to the spectrum user system, where the spectrum certificate contains at least one spectrum-related variable under which the spectrum user system is to engage in wireless communications.

Claims

1. A spectrum holder system, comprising:

a spectrum supply analyzer that analyzes spectrum usage data in a geographic area to identify available spectrum for use in wireless communications and that constructs a spectrum commodity item corresponding to the available spectrum, the spectrum commodity item including a time window, a frequency-based spectral mask, a geography-based emission mask and a transmitted power limit; and

an interface to a broker system to communicate the spectrum commodity item to the broker system.

2. The spectrum holder system of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of deployed sensors that collect the spectrum usage data that is analyzed by the spectrum supply analyzer.

3. The spectrum holder system of claim 1, further comprising a computer-implemented policing system that identifies a spectrum user system that exceeds an authorized use of spectrum, the authorized use corresponding to the time window, the frequency-based spectral mask, the geography-based emission mask and the transmitted power limit that are associated with the spectrum commodity item.

4. The spectrum holder system of claim 1, wherein the spectrum commodity item is communicated to the broker system as an offer that has at least one of an associated monetary price or an associated non-monetary value.

5. A wireless radio system, comprising:

a radio circuit for engaging in wireless communications;

a spectrum demand analyzer that analyzes spectrum demand data to identify spectrum demand by the radio circuit and generates a request for spectrum based on the identified spectrum demand; and

an interface to a broker system that communicates the request to the broker system.

6. The wireless radio system of claim 5, wherein the wireless radio system includes plural radio devices each having a radio circuit for carrying out the wireless communication.

7. The wireless radio system of claim 5, further comprising a control circuit that regulates wireless communications in accordance with a received spectrum certificate, the spectrum certificate being a data object that specifies a time window, a frequency-based spectral mask, a geography-based emission mask and a transmitted power limit, the wireless communications carried out in accordance with the spectrum certificate.

8. The wireless radio system of claim 5, wherein the request is communicated to the broker system as a bid that has at least one of an associated monetary price or an associated non-monetary value.

9. A spectrum commodity market, comprising:

a broker system that matches offers for available spectrum with bids for spectrum;

a spectrum holder system that communicates the offers for available spectrum to the broker system; and

a wireless radio system that has a demand for spectrum and communicates the bids for spectrum to the broker system.

10. The spectrum commodity market of claim 9, wherein the spectrum holder system includes:

a spectrum supply analyzer that analyzes spectrum usage data in a geographic area to identify available spectrum for use in wireless communications and that constructs a spectrum commodity item corresponding to the available spectrum, the spectrum commodity item including a time window, a frequency-based spectral mask, a geography-based emission mask and a transmitted power limit; and

an interface to a broker system to communicate the spectrum commodity item to the broker system in the form of the offer.

11. The spectrum commodity market of claim 10, wherein the spectrum holder system further includes a plurality of deployed sensors that collect the spectrum usage data that is analyzed by the spectrum supply analyzer.

12. The spectrum commodity market of claim 10, wherein the spectrum holder system further includes a computer implemented policing system that identifies a spectrum user system that exceeds an authorized use of spectrum, the authorized use corresponding to the time window, the frequency-based spectral mask, the geography-based emission mask and the transmitted power limit that are associated with the spectrum commodity item.

13. The spectrum commodity market of claim 10, wherein the offer has at least one of an associated monetary price or an associated non-monetary value.

14. The spectrum commodity market of claim 9, wherein the wireless radio system includes:

a radio circuit for engaging in wireless communications;

a spectrum demand analyzer that analyzes spectrum demand data to identify spectrum demand by the radio circuit and generates the bid for spectrum based on the identified spectrum demand; and

an interface to a broker system that communicates the bid to the broker system.

15. The spectrum commodity market of claim 14, wherein the wireless radio system includes plural radio devices each having a radio circuit for carrying out the wireless communication.

16. The spectrum commodity market of claim 14, wherein the wireless radio system further includes a control circuit that regulates wireless communications in accordance with a received spectrum certificate, the spectrum certificate being a data object that specifies a time window, a frequency-based spectral mask, a geography-based emission mask and a transmitted power limit, the wireless communications carried out in accordance with the spectrum certificate.

17. The spectrum commodity market of claim 14, wherein the bid has at least one of an associated monetary price or an associated non-monetary value.