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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2010
Amer A. Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew T. Baron, Redmond, WA (US);
Billy R. Anders, Jr., Bothell, WA (US);
Anoop Gupta, Woodinville, WA (US);
Amer A. Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Andrew T. Baron, Redmond, WA (US);
Billy R. Anders, Jr., Bothell, WA (US);
Anoop Gupta, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A bootstrapping technique for wirelessly obtaining white space data that may be used to identify an available white space channel for connecting to a service. Portable wireless devices may collaborate to provide white space data to a device requesting such data. A requesting device transmits a request for the white space data using, for example, an unlicensed band. A device receiving the request may transmit a copy of the data to the requesting device. The transmitted copy may be obtained by the receiving device from a local data store or may be provided from a database server to which the receiving device is connected. In the later case the receiving device acts as a proxy between the database server and the requesting device. Once the white space data is received by the requesting device it may be used to select a channel for communication in the white space.