Patent ID: 8644868

Claim:
A wireless radio device, comprising: a wireless transceiver configured to receive on a first channel set and transmit on a second channel set; and a control circuit configured to: determine one or more available channels for transmission; select one or more channels for the second channel set from the channels available for transmission, the one or more channels for the second channel set being operational channels for an uplink of the radio device; determine one or more available channels for reception, the one or more available channels for reception including the one or more available channels for transmission and one or more channels that are not available for transmission due to operation of an incumbent radio device in a location of the radio device; and select one or more channels for the first channel set from the channels available for reception, the one or more channels for the first channel set being operational channels for a downlink of the radio device wherein determination of the one or more available channels for transmission and the one or more available channels for reception is carried out by transmission of a registration request to a registration system and reception of a spectrum certificate with a channel map of available channels for wireless communications from the registration system.