Patent ID: 8848645

Claim:
A system for managing resources in a heterogeneous network, the heterogeneous network comprising a primary system, at least one 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 at least one 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 at least one secondary system, wherein the heterogeneous network resource management circuit resides within a base station of the primary system, the at least one secondary system, or a specialized heterogeneous network resource management node, and the efficiency of resource multiplexing is estimated based on a distance between each of the regions and the at least one secondary system such that the greater the distance, the higher the efficiency of resource multiplexing.