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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2014
Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Joey Padden, Boulder, CO (US);
Bernard McKibben, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Boulder, CO (US);
Luis Alberto Campos, Superior, CO (US);
Ian MacMillan, Superior, CO (US);
Justin Colwell, Arvada, CO (US);
CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods presented herein provide for capacity sharing between wireless systems. In one embodiment, a scheduler is operable with a plurality of wireless base stations. Each base station is operable to digitize a frequency spectrum of radio communications from a plurality of user equipment (UEs). The scheduler communicatively couples to first and second Mobile Central Offices (MCOs). The scheduler processes the digitized frequency spectrums of the base stations, extracts radio communications of a first of the UEs from the digitized frequency spectrums of one or more of the base stations coupled to the first MCO, determines that a capacity of the first MCO has been exceeded, determines that a capacity of the second MCO is available, acquires at least a portion of the capacity of the second MCO, and handles a call of the first UE through the capacity acquired from the second MCO.