SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POLICING SPECTRUM USAGE

• US 20120142382A1
• Filed: 02/14/2012
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Spectrum Bridge, Inc.
• Inventors: Stanforth, Peter, Koos, Larry W., Koos, William W., Hamilla, Joseph M.
• Granted Patent: US 9,129,343 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/500
• 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 method of policing use of spectrum for wireless communications, comprising:

monitoring spectrum use in a geographic area to generate spectrum use data;

analyzing the spectrum use data to identify operation of a wireless radio system that is not compliant with a combination of a time window, a frequency-based spectral mask, a geography-based emission mask and a transmitted power limit of a spectrum certificate that is issued to the wireless radio system, the spectrum certificate being a data object that obligates the wireless radio system to comply with the combination; and

generating a violation alarm corresponding to the identified wireless radio system operation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the violation alarm includes an instruction to cease wireless communication within frequency variables associated with the frequency-based spectral mask.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the violation alarm includes an instruction to take remedial action so that the wireless communications comply with the spectrum certificate.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the violation alarm is transmitted to a broker system that issued the spectrum certificate to the wireless radio system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the violation alarm is transmitted to the wireless radio system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the spectrum use data is generated by deployed sensors.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the sensors are deployed to monitor spectrum usage at a perimeter of a geographic area.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the perimeter of the geographic area corresponds to a boundary of a geographic coverage area of a group of radio devices that operate in accordance with the spectrum certificate.

9. A system for policing use of spectrum for wireless communications, comprising a computer-implemented policing device that analyzes spectrum use data to identify operation of a wireless radio system that is not compliant with a combination of a time window, a frequency-based spectral mask, a geography-based emission mask and a transmitted power limit of a spectrum certificate that is issued to the wireless radio system and generates an alarm corresponding to the identified wireless radio system operation, and wherein the spectrum certificate is a data object that obligates the wireless radio system to comply with the combination.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the violation alarm includes an instruction to cease wireless communication within frequency variables associated with the frequency-based spectral mask.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the violation alarm includes an instruction to take remedial action so that the wireless communications comply with the spectrum certificate.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the violation alarm is transmitted to a broker system that issued the spectrum certificate to the wireless radio system.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the violation alarm is transmitted to the wireless radio system.

14. The system of claim 9, further comprising a plurality of deployed sensors that monitor spectrum use in a geographic area to generate the spectrum use data.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the sensors are deployed to monitor spectrum usage at a perimeter of the geographic area.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the perimeter of the geographic area corresponds to a boundary of a geographic coverage area of a group of radio devices that operate in accordance with the spectrum certificate.