Patent ID: 8719147

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for identifying attributes for channels in a superblock, the computer-implemented method comprising: forming, on a computer processor, a superblock for a spectrum map, wherein forming the superblock comprises: dividing a mapped area into a plurality of market service areas and a plurality of basic trading areas, wherein some of said market service areas overlap others of said market service areas, and wherein some of said basic trading areas may overlap others of said basic trading areas, and wherein some of said market service areas overlap some of said basic trading areas, further dividing said mapped area into territories, said territories each comprising a spectrum of said plurality of channels, wherein some of said territories may overlap others of said territories, locating all of said market service areas and all of said basic trading areas and all of said territories which are overlapped by one or more other of said market service areas or other of said basic trading areas or other of said territories, forming an individual polygon boundary around each area in which said overlapped market service areas or said overlapped basic trading areas or said overlapped territories commonly intersect, and identifying all of said data within each individual polygon boundary for all of said polygon boundaries; identifying, on the computer processor, desired attributes for a channel; and analyzing, on the computer processor, a superblock associated with a collection of communication channels, wherein analyzing the superblock further comprises: checking each channel within the superblock for matches to the one or more desired channel attributes, generating a notification for each channel of the superblock that matches the one or more desired channel attributes, and based on the matches to the one or more desired channel attributes, calculating spectrum depth or maximum contiguous coverage.