Patent ID: 9414360
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A multi-mode device (MMD) comprising: a collection of radio access technology to facilitate communication of one or more broadcast services in a broadcast network, wherein broadcast services comprises signals to communication using one or more wireless standard; a cloud spectrum service (CSS) middleware unit comprising a microprocessor manages dynamic spectrum access transaction state for the multi-mode device and wherein the CSS middleware unit is accessible by an application configured to consume the one or more broadcast services in a broadcast network; wherein the CSS middleware unit coordinates communication between hardware in the multi-mode device and applications executing in the multi-mode device; wherein the CSS middleware unit executes middleware programming selected from a group consisting of cloud spectrum services transaction component, security and trust component, MMD profile management component, pricing component, context awareness component, and a combination thereof; wherein if the cloud spectrum services transaction component perform functions selected from a group consisting of communicating with a cloud spectrum broker (CSB), communicating with a cloud spectrum database (CSD), requesting time frequency unit availability windows, releasing time frequency unit (TFU) availability windows, notifying the CSD of the availability of unused TFU or vacated TFU, and a combination thereof.