Patent ID: 9647819
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: configuring a remote device to perform measurements for at least one measurement item of at least one carrier in a first frequency band which is different from a second, licensed frequency band used for communication by said remote device, wherein the configuring comprises assigning at least one threshold per measurement item, wherein one of the thresholds corresponds to a channel occupancy of the at least one carrier in the first frequency band; receiving a measurement report comprising at least an indication of usability for the at least one measured carrier in the first frequency band from said remote device, wherein the at least one threshold is used by the remote device to determine the indication of usability and the indication of usability comprises one of a plurality of carrier type indications, each carrier type indication indicating one carrier type of multiple possible carrier types for a carrier in a cell and based on a combination of emergence number for a primary service and interference strength; deciding, based at least on the indication of usability, whether to reconfigure the at least one measured carrier in said first frequency band for communication by said remote device; and using at least one carrier in the second frequency band and at least one of the measured carriers in the first frequency band for communication with said remote device according to the deciding, wherein the first frequency band is at least one of: an unlicensed frequency band and a license-exempt frequency band, wherein using at least one carrier in the second frequency band and at least one of the measured carriers in the first frequency band for communication with said remote device further comprises using a pattern of a selected measured carrier's availability and corresponding carrier type indications for different time periods, using the pattern to select one of the indicated plurality of carrier types to use for communication for a selected one of the different time periods, and using the selected carrier type on the selected measured carrier for the first frequency band for communication with the remote device in the selected time period.