Patent ID: 9129343
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: G06Q,H04W,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method of policing use of spectrum for wireless communications, comprising: monitoring spectrum use in a geographic area to generate spectrum use data; analyzing the spectrum use data to identify operation of a wireless radio system that is not compliant with a combination of a time window, a frequency-based spectral mask, a geography-based emission mask and a transmitted power limit of a spectrum certificate that is issued to the wireless radio system, the spectrum certificate being a data object that electronically binds the wireless radio system to carry out wireless communications in accordance with the frequency-based spectral mask, the geography-based emission mask and the transmitted power limit during the time window, the time window specifying when the spectrum certificate is valid and the wireless communications carried out in an environment with other wireless radio systems that conduct wireless communications in accordance with respective spectrum certificates, the wireless radio systems comprising a dynamically changing group of spectrum users having diverse spectrum needs, and the spectrum certificate availing part of a pool of available spectrum to the wireless radio system, the pool of available spectrum from plural spectrum holders each having authority to release use of the spectrum contributed to pool to another entity and the available spectrum in the pool dynamically changing over time as spectrum becomes available from the spectrum holders, as spectrum is no longer available for use by the spectrum users and as spectrum is allocated for use by the spectrum users in the spectrum certificates; and generating a violation alarm corresponding to the identified wireless radio system operation.