Patent ID: 8954087
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for providing communication services, the apparatus being implemented in a mobile base station, and the apparatus providing the communication services to at least one user terminal over a mobile communication network and enabling the user terminal to receive the communication services via TV white spaces, wherein the apparatus comprises: a location information acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a current location of the user terminal by sending a location information request message to the user terminal; a radio station information acquisition unit configured to request information about a white space radio station from which the user terminal can receive the communication services by sending the information about the current location of the user terminal to a white space server that manages status of use of the TV white spaces of a plurality of white space radio stations, and configured to acquire, from the white space server, information about an available white space radio station which is determined from among the plurality of white space radio stations based on the information about the current location of the user terminal and the status of use of the TV white spaces; and an offloading unit configured to send the information about the available white space radio station to the user terminal, and to also send information about the user terminal to the available white space radio station, wherein the available white space radio station is determined so as to avoid interference with one or more Digital Television (DTV) receivers receiving a digital broadcasting service as primary licensed users, one or more auxiliary broadcasting services, one or more licensed wireless microphones, and one or more Cable Television (CATV) head ends.