Mitigating transmission interference between digital radio and broadband communication devices

A computer program product for mitigating radio frequency interference between two proximate communication devices, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;
• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to detect at a broadband device, a narrowband transmission from a narrowband communication device, wherein the narrowband transmission is in close enough proximity to at least one bearer channel of the broadband device to result in interference on the narrowband reception when the broadband device is transmitting and the narrowband communication device is receiving concurrently, and further wherein the broadband device and the narrowband communication device are separate devices;
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• program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to, responsive to detecting the narrowband transmission, determine at the broadband device that the narrowband communication device is proximate to the broadband device, and further to gate a broadband transmission to ensure the broadband transmission does not interfere with the proximate narrowband reception, wherein in absence of detecting the narrowband transmission the broadband transmission from the broadband device would not be gated.

A system for mitigating RF interference between a narrowband radio communications device and a 3GPP conforming network communications device comprising:

• a narrowband radio communications device configured to transmit and receive narrowband communications;
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• a 3GPP-conforming network communications device, separate from the narrowband radio communications device, configured to communicate with a 3GPP-conforming network, and wherein the 3GPP-conforming network communications device further is configured to:
• detect a narrowband transmission from the narrowband communication device, wherein the narrowband transmission is in close enough proximity to at least one bearer channel of the broadband device to result in interference on the narrowband reception when the broadband device is transmitting and the narrowband communication device is receiving concurrently;
• responsive to the detecting, determine that the narrowband communication device is proximate to the broadband device;
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• mitigate the potential for interference between the narrowband radio communications device and the 3GPP-conforming network communications device by selectively throttling transmissions of the 3GPP-conforming network communications device when receptions of the narrowband radio communications device are likely to be occurring within close proximity to the 3GPP-conforming network communication device, wherein the 3GPP conforming network communications device and the narrowband radio communications device are two separate devices.