Patent ID: 11895635
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer readable medium including a first set of computer executable instructions which when executed by a processor of a wireless base station cause the wireless base station to perform the steps of:
dividing spectrum identified as available for use by the wireless base station into a plurality of bandwidth parts, said plurality of bandwidth parts including at least one bandwidth part of licensed spectrum and at least one bandwidth part of unlicensed spectrum;
receiving user equipment capability information from a first user equipment device;
determining whether to allocate licensed or unlicensed spectrum to the first user equipment device based on the received user equipment capability information;
communicating a first spectrum allocation grant to the first user equipment device, said first spectrum allocation grant identifying the allocated spectrum for use by the first user equipment device;
wherein the wireless base station and the first user equipment device are part of a wireless network which supports bandwidth parts; and
wherein said determining whether to allocate licensed or unlicensed spectrum to the first user equipment device based on the received user equipment capability information further includes: determining which licensed or unlicensed bandwidth part spectrum is available for use by the wireless base station to allocate to the first user equipment device based on a first user equipment capability score and quality scores of the licensed and unlicensed spectrum bandwidth parts.