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US 2016/0081014 A1Published application
White space utilization
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAmer A. HASSAN, Paul W. GARNETT, Paul W. A. Mitchell
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Abstract
The concepts relate to radio white space utilization. One example can obtain information about a location of a device. The example can access a white space database to obtain radio white space frequencies relative to the location. This example can also perform active scanning of at least some of the radio white space frequencies at the location and not perform active scanning on allocated frequencies.
Claims21
1-10. (canceled)
A method, comprising:
- obtaining information about a location of a device;
- accessing a white space database to obtain radio white space frequencies relative to the location;
- sending the obtained radio white space frequencies to the device over a cellular network;
- and,
- instructing the device to:
- perform active scanning of at least some of the radio white space frequencies at the location to discover a wireless access point providing a radio white space network on an individual radio white space frequency,
- not perform active scanning on allocated frequencies, and
- switch at least some data communication to the radio white space network from the cellular network.
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A system, comprising:
- a white space data store;
- a processing device;
- and
- a storage device storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to:
- obtain information about a location of a mobile device;
- determine a current operating capacity of at least one cell tower proximate the mobile device;
- based at least in part on the current operating capacity, access the white space data store to obtain a list of radio white space frequencies relative to the location;
- send the obtained list of the radio white space frequencies to the mobile device over a cellular network;
- and,
- instruct the mobile device to perform active scanning of at least some of the radio white space frequencies from the list to discover a wireless access point at the location, the wireless access point providing a radio white space network on an individual radio white space frequency.
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A method, comprising:
- obtain information about a location of a device;
- based at least on a currently available operating capacity of cell towers proximate the device, access a white space data store to obtain a list of radio white space frequencies relative to the location;
- send the obtained list of the radio white space frequencies to the device over a cellular network;
- instruct the device to perform active scanning of at least some of the radio white space frequencies from the list to discover a wireless access point at the location, the wireless access point providing a radio white space network on an individual radio white space frequency;
- and,
- obtain interference data from the device for the radio white space network and add the interference data to the white space data store.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.