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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 29, 2016
Applicants:

Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Alcatel-lucent India Limited, Gurgaon, IN;

Inventors:

Michael Schabel, Allen, TX (US);

Subramanian Vasudevan, Morristown, NJ (US);

Mohammad R. Khawer, Lake Hopatcong, NJ (US);

Satish Kanugovi, Bangalore, IN;

Assignees:

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controller in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive channel activity reports from a first node and a plurality of second nodes that are connected to the first node. The first node supports wireless communication over one or more first channels of a licensed frequency band and second channels of an unlicensed frequency band. The second node supports wireless communication over the second channels of the unlicensed frequency band. The controller also includes a processor to allocate a subset of the second channels to the first node and the plurality of second nodes based on the channel activity reports.


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