Patent ID: 11924920
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A user equipment, comprising:
a terminal equipment;
a terminal adapter;
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
in response to receiving a request, from a user program executing on the user equipment, for frequency bands currently being employed by the terminal adapter in relation to communications, sending, by the terminal equipment, a communication command to the terminal adapter of the user equipment to return operating frequency-related information identifying the frequency bands currently being employed by the terminal adapter in relation to the communications, wherein the communication command is based on an attention command protocol;
receiving, by the terminal equipment, from the terminal adapter, the operating frequency-related information identifying the frequency bands currently being employed by the terminal adapter in relation to the communications; and
enabling, by the terminal equipment, the user program to access the operating frequency-related information.