Patent ID: 9456438
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D,Y04S

Claim Text:
1. A communication system comprising: a base station having a transmitter; and one or more terminals each having a receiver and being configured for wirelessly receiving communications through the respective receiver from the transmitter of the base station when the transmitter is greater than 100 meters away from the respective receiver, and wherein the communications are transmitted using a communications protocol that is a spread spectrum, frequency hopping Weightless communications protocol; wherein the communications protocol operates in a frequency band to which unlicensed access is permitted; wherein the base station is configured to determine channels that are in whitespace of the frequency band and that are selected as available in a location of the base station and determine a frequency hopping sequence using the channels; wherein the terminals are further configured for unattended operation and unattended, automated communication with the base station; wherein the base station is further configured to determine whether the one or more terminals are suffering from interference on the channels of the frequency hopping sequence, and in response to determining that a number of interfered terminals is greater than a predetermined threshold are, remove an interfered channel from the frequency hopping sequence; and wherein the base station is further configured to, in response to determining that the number of interfered terminals is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold, send a communication to at least one of the interfered terminals to modify a subsequent scheduled communication with the respective interfered terminal, wherein modifying the subsequent scheduled communications comprises at least one of allocating future communications with the respective one of the interfered terminals to time slots within the frequency hopping sequence that belong to a channel other than the interfered channel, or indicating, in advance, to the one of the interfered terminals that a future communication should be skipped.