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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:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2014
Applicants:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventors:

Kent W. Hughes, Oakland, CA (US);

Arda Aksu, Martinez, CA (US);

Donna L. Polehn, Kirkland, WA (US);

Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);

David Chiang, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignees:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device is configured to obtain interference information indicating interference levels at frequencies. The device is configured to determine a frequency for a small cell to use to communicate with a client device based on the interference information. The small cell is capable of using the frequencies to communicate and the frequency is determined from among the frequencies. The device is further configured to provide frequency information to the small cell instructing the small cell to communicate with the client device using the frequency.


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