Managing licensed and unlicensed communications using cellular protocols
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorBonnie CHEN
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Abstract
A system and method of identifying licensed and unlicensed communications over a cellular protocol includes: wirelessly transmitting a communication session request from a wireless device to a wireless carrier system using the LTE cellular protocol; receiving a response at the wireless device from the wireless carrier system indicating that the wireless carrier system is providing a communication session using a licensed communications frequency band or an unlicensed communications frequency band; and establishing communications from the wireless device via the wireless carrier system based on whether the wireless carrier system is providing cellular communications via the licensed communications frequency band or the unlicensed communications frequency band.
Claims14
A method of managing licensed and unlicensed communications over a cellular protocol, comprising the steps of:
- (a) wirelessly transmitting a communication session request from a wireless device to a wireless carrier system using the cellular protocol;
- (b) receiving a response at the wireless device from the wireless carrier system indicating that the wireless carrier system is providing a communication session using a licensed communications frequency band or an unlicensed communications frequency band;
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- (c) establishing communications from the wireless device via the wireless carrier system based on whether the wireless carrier system is providing cellular communications via the licensed communications frequency band or the unlicensed communications frequency band.
A method of managing licensed and unlicensed communications over cellular protocol, comprising the steps of:
- (a) wirelessly transmitting a communication session request from a wireless device to a wireless carrier system using the cellular protocol;
- (b) receiving a response at the wireless device from the wireless carrier system indicating that the wireless carrier system is providing a communication session using a licensed communications frequency band or an unlicensed communications frequency band;
- (c) determining from the response whether the wireless carrier system is providing cellular communications via the licensed bandwidth or the unlicensed bandwidth;
- (d) identifying a node the wireless device contacted via the communication session;
- (e) establishing communications via the wireless carrier system when the wireless device contacted a first node;
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- (f) ending communications via the wireless carrier system when the wireless device contacted a second node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.