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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:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2014
Applicant:

Vodafone Ip Licensing Limited, Berkshire, GB;

Inventors:

Prakash Bhat, Berkshire, GB;

Ralf Irmer, Berkshire, GB;

Benedikt Noethen, Berkshire, GB;

Assignee:

VODAFONE IP LICENSING LIMITED, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H01Q 11/12 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/04 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04W 24/04 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/042 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of operating a mobile telecommunications device including cellular communication means operable to communicate with a cellular telecommunications network base station and white space communication means operable to communicate with a non-cellular white space access point, the method including determining the availability of white space and selectively enabling white space communication in dependence upon the determination. Controlling transmission of user data in the white space may be by exchanging control data with the cellular telecommunications network base station such that the control data controls the transmission of user data in the white space. White space communication need not be implemented in uplink and may be used in the downlink alone.


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