Patent ID: 9553709
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of wireless communication using whitespace channels, comprising: exchanging, at a base station, data communications with a user equipment on a first whitespace channel; determining, at the base station, whether the first whitespace channel will be lost; switching, at the base station, the data communications to a second whitespace channel if the determining step indicates that the first whitespace channel will be lost, the first and second whitespace channels being channels that are licensed to a primary user and utilized by a wireless communication service provider operating the base station as a secondary user; and exchanging control signaling with the user equipment on the non-whitespace channel even during periods when the base station is exchanging the data communications with the user equipment on one of the first and second whitespace channels, wherein the non-whitespace channel is a channel that is exclusively licensed to a wireless communication service provider and unlicensed to all other users.