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US 2014/0274099 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for signal interference processing
AssigneeISCO International, LLC
InventorsAmr Abdelmonem, Mikhail Galeev
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Abstract
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for mitigating interference by filtering or redirection of communications traffic. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining, by a system comprising a processor, at least one threshold for detecting signal interference in a first plurality of resource blocks occurring in a first radio frequency spectrum of a first wireless communication system;
- detecting, by the system, signal interference in a first resource block of the first plurality of resource blocks according to the at least one threshold;
- responsive to determining that traffic utilization of the first plurality of resource blocks in the first radio frequency spectrum does not cause an inability to redirect at least a portion of the data traffic within the first plurality of resource blocks to avoid the signal interference, initiating, by the system, a redirection of at least the portion of data traffic to a second resource block of the first plurality of resource blocks;
- responsive to determining that traffic utilization of the first plurality of resource blocks in the first radio frequency spectrum causes an inability to redirect at least the portion of the data traffic within the first plurality of resource blocks to avoid the signal interference,
- determining, by the system, that a second wireless communication system has a second plurality of resource blocks available to transport at least the portion of the data traffic;
- and
- initiating, by the system, a redirection at least the portion of the data traffic to the second plurality of resource blocks of the second wireless communication system.
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A machine-readable storage medium, comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- detecting signal interference in a segment of a first plurality of segments occurring in a first radio frequency spectrum of a first wireless communication system, wherein the signal interference is intermixed with signals transmitted by a transmitter, and wherein the signals comprise data traffic;
- responsive to determining that traffic utilization of the first plurality of segments in the first radio frequency spectrum does not cause an inability to redirect at least a portion of the data traffic within the first plurality of segments to avoid the signal interference, initiating a redirection of at least the portion of data traffic to a second segment of the first plurality of segments;
- responsive to determining that traffic utilization of the first plurality of segments in the first radio frequency spectrum causes an inability to redirect at least the portion of the data traffic within the first plurality of segments to avoid the signal interference,
- determining that a second wireless communication system operating at a second radio frequency spectrum has a second plurality of segments available to transport at least the portion of the data traffic, wherein the first radio frequency spectrum and the second radio frequency spectrum do not overlap;
- determining that the second wireless communication system is in a communication range of the transmitter transmitting the signals in the first plurality of segments;
- and
- initiating a redirection of at least the portion of the data traffic to the second plurality of segments of the second wireless communication system to avoid the signal interference.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory to store instructions;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving signal interference information from a plurality of communication systems that detect signal interference according to at least one threshold;
- monitoring a location of each of a plurality of communication devices communicatively coupled to the plurality of communication systems;
- detecting a first communication device of the plurality of communication devices experiencing a degradation in communications with a first communication system of the plurality of communication systems;
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- facilitating the first communication device to initiate communications with a second communication system of the plurality of communication systems according to the signal interference information and the location of the first communication device, wherein the second communication system is in a communication range of the first communication device, and wherein the second communication system can provide an alternate communication channel to the first communication device with at least less degradation in communications than the first communication system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.