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US 11,464,044 B2Granted
Wireless channel monitoring, acquisition, and alignment
AssigneeCharter Communications Operating, LLC
InventorAhmad Reza Hedayat
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Abstract
A system includes multiple techniques of implementing listen before talk functionality to provide multiple mobile communication devices connectivity with a wireless base station.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- monitoring, via listen before talk operations, both a first bandwidth and a second bandwidth to transmit wireless communications in a network environment;
- receiving access rights to use the first bandwidth prior to receiving access rights to use the second bandwidth;
- and
- temporally aligning use of the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth via communication of a wireless message over the first bandwidth.
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A system comprising:
- a wireless base station operative to:
- monitor, via listen before talk operations, both a first bandwidth and a second bandwidth to transmit wireless communications in a network environment;
- receive access rights to use the first bandwidth prior to receiving access rights to use the second bandwidth;
- and
- temporally align use of the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth via communication of a wireless message over the first bandwidth.
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Computer-readable storage hardware having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when carried out by computer processor hardware, cause the computer processor hardware to:
- monitor, via listen before talk operations, both a first bandwidth and a second bandwidth to transmit wireless communications in a network environment;
- receive access rights to use the first bandwidth prior to receiving access rights to use the second bandwidth;
- and
- temporally align use of the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth via communication of a wireless message over the first bandwidth.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.