Patent ID: 11968543
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. Computer readable apparatus comprising a non-transitory storage medium, the non-transitory storage medium comprising at least one computer program having a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions configured to, when executed on a processing apparatus, cause a computerized controller apparatus to:
identify one or more sub-bands allocated to a wireless network;
obtain first data relating to at least one of a venue or coverage area of the wireless network;
evaluate the first data to determine one of (i) interference or (ii) prospective interference associated with the one or more sub-bands;
based on the determination of the one of (i) the interference or (ii) the prospective interference associated with the one or more sub-bands, cause removal of the one or more sub-bands from an available pool of sub-bands for use by at least one wireless access node apparatus associated with the at least one of the venue or the coverage area;
evaluate a database with respect to remaining sub-bands of the available pool of the sub-bands to identify one or more of the remaining sub-bands having a probability over a prescribed threshold of withdrawal from use; and
cause allocation of at least a portion of the remaining sub-bands to the at least one wireless access node apparatus, the at least portion of the remaining sub-bands excluding the one or more of the remaining sub-bands having the probability over the prescribed threshold of the withdrawal from the use.