DYNAMIC DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY AND CERTIFICATION FOR RADIO APPLICATION DISTRIBUTION

• US 20150312697A1
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Intel IP Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Mueck, Markus Dominik
• Application Number:
  US14/543,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20150312697A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Embodiments described herein relate generally to providing a radio application to a radio device for alteration of one or more radio characteristics of the radio device. A radio device may contact a reconfiguration market platform to request a radio application. The reconfiguration market platform may determine whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application. The reconfiguration market platform may contact a regulatory certificate platform to make this determination, or the reconfiguration market platform may cause the radio device to contact the regulatory certificate platform to facilitate this determination. If the reconfiguration market platform determines that the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application, the reconfiguration market platform provides the radio application to the radio device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus to be included in a radio device, the apparatus comprising:

transmitter circuitry to transmit, to a first system associated with provision of radio applications, a first request, including information associated with a declaration of conformity (“

DoC”

) that applies to the radio device, for a radio application;

receiver circuitry to receive, from the first system based on the first request, an authorization response that is to indicate whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application based on the information associated with the DOC; and

processing circuitry, coupled with the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry, to detect one or more operational characteristics associated with the radio device, and, if the authorization response indicates that the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application, alter one or more radio characteristics of the radio device based on the response and the detection of the operational characteristics.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is to access an external resource to determine the DoC-associated information based on the DoC.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the DoC-associated information comprises at least one of a certificate that is to supplement the DoC that applies to the radio device or a version of the DoC.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more operational characteristics associated with the radio device include one or more of a geographic area associated with the radio device, a current time, a frequency associated with communication by the radio device, or another radio application stored in the radio device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the receiver circuitry is to receive an indication of one or more operational parameters, and further wherein the processing circuitry is to alter the one or more radio characteristics based on comparison of the operational parameters to the operational characteristics.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the one or more operational parameters include one or more of a geographic limitation for usage of the radio application, a time limitation for usage of the radio application, a frequency limitation for usage of the radio application, an output power level, or a spectrum sharing constraint.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the processing circuitry is to generate a parameters request for the operational parameters, and further wherein the transmitter circuitry is to transmit the parameters request to a database that is associated with the provision of operational parameters.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is to generate the first request to further include at least one of a type of the radio device or an identifier associated with the radio device.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the authorization response includes one of the radio application or an indication that the radio device is not authorized to operate the radio application.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the transmitter circuitry is further to transmit, to the first system, a certificate based on a request received from the first system, and to transmit, to a second system associated with regulation of radio applications, a second request for the certificate, and further wherein the receiver circuitry is further to receive, based on the transmitted first request, the request from the first system before the authorization response, and to receive, from the second system, the certificate based on the transmitted second request.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the second request for the certificate is to include at least one of a current geographic location associated with the radio device, a usage interval associated with the radio application, or a target frequency band associated with communication by the radio device.

12. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the receiver circuitry is to receive a validation request, from a second system that is associated with regulation of radio applications, for additional information associated with the DoC, and further wherein the transmitter circuitry is to transmit the additional DoC-associated information to the second system based on the validation request.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the receiver circuitry is to receive, based on the additional DoC-associated information transmitted to the second system, a notification that the radio device is not authorized to continue operation of the radio application, and further wherein the processing circuitry is to cease the operation of the radio application based on the notification.

14. A computer system for providing radio applications to radio devices, the system comprising:

receiver circuitry to receive, from a radio device, a request for a radio application that is to affect at least one radio characteristic of the radio device;

processing circuitry, coupled with the receiver circuitry, to determine whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application based on information associated with a declaration of conformity (“

DoC”

) that applies to the radio device, and to determine one or more operational parameters associated with operation of the radio application by the radio device; and

transmitter circuitry, coupled with the processing circuitry, to transmit, to the radio device based on the request, either the radio application and the operational parameters or an indication that the radio device is not authorized to operate the radio application based on the determination of whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application.

15. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the determination of whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application based on the information associated with the DoC comprises to:

transmit, by the transmitter circuitry, a request for the DoC-associated information to a second system that is associated with regulation of radio applications;

receive, by the receiver circuitry, the DoC-associated information based on the request; and

determine, by the processing circuitry, whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application based on the received DoC-associated information.

16. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the determination of whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio device based on the information associated with the DoC comprises to:

transmit, by the transmitter circuitry, a request for authorization information associated with the DoC to the radio device based on the received request;

receive, by the receiver circuitry, the authorization information based on the transmitted request; and

determine, by the processing circuitry, whether the radio device is authorized to operate the radio application based on the received authorization information.

17. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the information associated with the DoC comprises a first part included in the received request and the authorization information.

18. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the determination of the one or more operational parameters comprises to:

transmit, by the transmitter circuitry, a request for the operational parameters to a computer system having an operational database; and

receive, by the receiver circuitry, an indication of the one or more operational parameters from the computer system having the operational database.

19. The computer system of claim 14, wherein the one or more operational parameters comprise one or more of an output power level, an available frequency band, or an operator preference.

20. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising computing device-executable instructions, wherein the instructions, in response to execution by a computer system, cause the computer system to:

receive, from another computer system, a request associated with a radio device;

select first information associated with a first Declaration of Conformity (“

DoC”

) that applies to the radio device based on the request; and

transmit the first DoC-associated information to the other computer system for authorization of a radio application to affect one or more radio characteristics of the radio device.

21. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 20, wherein the request associated with the radio device is to include at least one of a current geographic location associated with the radio device, a usage interval associated with usage of the radio application by the radio device, or a target frequency band associated with communication by the radio device.

22. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 20, wherein the other computer system is one of the radio device or a computer system associated with provision of the radio application to the radio device.

23. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 20, wherein the instructions are further to cause the computing system to:

receive an indication that the radio application is authorized to alter one or more radio characteristics of the radio device according to the first DoC; and

update the first DoC-associated information based on the indication.

24. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 20, wherein the instructions are further to cause the computing system to:

transmit, to the radio device, a request for second information associated with a second DoC that is available to the radio device;

receive an indication of the second DoC-associated information from the radio device based on the request;

determine that the radio device is authorized to continue operation of the radio application based on the second DoC-associated information.

25. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 24, wherein the instructions are further to cause the computing system to:

transmit an instruction to the radio device to cause the radio device to cease operation of the radio application based on a determination that the radio device is not authorized to continue the operation of the radio application.