Patent ID: 8855078

Claim:
A system for managing resources in a heterogeneous network, which comprises a primary system, a secondary system, and a communication coverage range that is divided into a plurality of regions, the system comprising: a heterogeneous network resource management circuit configured to collect and manage resource usage status within a managed region; and a secondary system resource management circuit configured to acquire the resource usage status of each of the regions from the heterogeneous network resource management circuit, and to allocate resources to the secondary system by utilizing the acquired resource usage status of each of the regions and in accordance with a priority determined based on an efficiency of resource multiplexing between each of the regions and the secondary system, wherein the heterogeneous network resource management circuit resides within a base station of the primary system, the secondary system or a specialized heterogeneous network resource management node, when the heterogeneous network resource management circuit resides within the base station of the primary system, the efficiency of resource multiplexing is estimated based on a distance between each of the regions and the secondary system such that the greater the distance, the higher the efficiency of resource multiplexing, and when the heterogeneous network resource management circuit resides within the secondary system distributed among respective regions or within the specialized heterogeneous network resource management node, the efficiency of resource multiplexing is estimated based on routing information from the heterogeneous network resource management module to the secondary system such that the further the route, the higher the efficiency of resource multiplexing.