Patent ID: 8868466

Claim:
A computer implemented method of transferring rights associated with spectrum, comprising: receiving, by an automated spectrum exchange server system, a description of spectrum that is available for sublease from a spectrum holder; wherein the spectrum description includes geographic information, frequency information and time information; creating, by the automated spectrum exchange server system, a sublease agreement between the spectrum holder and a spectrum intermediary for the described spectrum; wherein the spectrum intermediary is a different party than the spectrum holder; apportioning, by the automated spectrum exchange server system and to a spectrum user radio equipment, an amount of the described spectrum; wherein the spectrum user radio equipment is operated by a different party than each of the spectrum intermediary and the spectrum holder; wherein the spectrum user radio equipment creates a sub-network within confines of the created sublease; wherein the spectrum user radio equipment conducts wireless communications over the sub-network and in the apportioned amount of the described spectrum; and granting, by the automated spectrum exchange server system and to the spectrum user radio equipment, access permission to the apportioned amount of the described spectrum; providing, by the automated spectrum exchange server system and on behalf of the spectrum intermediary, electronic control over the spectrum user radio equipment to conduct the wireless communications; assigning, by the automated spectrum exchange server system, a spectrum-related variable under which the spectrum user radio system is to engage in wireless communications; creating, by the automated spectrum exchange server system, a spectrum certificate that contains the assigned spectrum-related variable; and issuing, by the automated spectrum exchange server system and to the spectrum user radio equipment, the spectrum certificate; and wherein the spectrum certificate electronically binds transmissions of the spectrum user radio equipment.