Patent ID: 8014345

Claim:
A monitoring device comprising a transceiver to receive a radio signal; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver to monitor for and detect an interference on a primary spectrum of the radio signal, wherein the interference is caused by a cognitive radio (CR) in a vicinity of the monitoring device, and report the interference as an infringement to a database, the processor of the monitoring device by way of the transceiver logging the interference to a policy database accessible to a CR base station that manages cognitive devices in the vicinity thereby notifying the CR base station of the infringement, the CR base station managing the cognitive devices in the vicinity by establishing and adjusting contours for CR allowed regions and contours for CR not allowed regions based access policies and the logged interference; and continue monitoring and updating the database periodically with new detected interference information such that the contours for CR allowed regions and contours for CR not allowed regions are readjusted for cognitive devices in the vicinity.