Patent ID: 8199768
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G06Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for granting access requests to a spectrum band, comprising: defining access allocations to a spectrum band, each access allocation being an allocation for access to a portion of an electromagnetic spectrum; defining transmit rights to the access allocations; receiving requests for transmit rights, each request being an auction bid for an auction of a transmit right to an access allocation to the spectrum band, each auction bid being sent from a mobile device and including a sensed ambient power level for a portion of the spectrum band over which the mobile device communicates wirelessly; grouping the bids according to the sensed ambient power levels, wherein at least two different groups of bids are generated by the grouping of bids; conducting, for each group of bids, an auction of the transmit rights so that bids compete only in their corresponding ambient power level group; prioritizing the requests according to a dynamic market priority; and granting the requests for transmit rights to one or more of the access allocations to the spectrum band according to the dynamic market prioritization of the requests.