Dynamic spectrum acquisition and power management for wireless devices

A device comprising:

• a wireless transmitter;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory storing computer executable instructions which when executed by the processor configure the device to:
• establish a location of the device;
• poll a network database to establish data relating to a number of available spectral regions for the location;
• identify a largest continuous range within the number of available spectral regions for the location as a range the device wishes to declare operation upon;
• transmit to the network database data identifying that the device intends to operate upon the identified largest continuous range within the number of available spectral regions at the location;
• and
• define in dependence upon the largest continuous range within the number of available spectral regions one or more transmitter characteristics with which to operate a transmitter forming part of the device at the location.

A method comprising:

• powering on a wireless transceiver (radio) of an electronic device;
• scanning with the radio a region of a wireless environment at a location of the electronic device;
• ranking potential centre frequencies of operation identified by a microprocessor associated with the radio from the scan of the region of the wireless environment;
• selecting with the microprocessor an operating range for the electronic device to declare based upon the ranked potential centre frequencies;
• transmitting data relating to the selected operating range the electronic device is declaring to a network database;
• selecting with the microprocessor an operating frequency within the selected operating range to operate upon;
• defining with the microprocessor transmitter characteristics of a wireless transmitter forming part of the radio to be employed whilst transmitting upon the operating frequency;
• and
• transmitting data from the electronic device with the radio.