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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Amer A. Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);
Paul W. Garnett, Albany, NY (US);
Paul W. A. Mitchell, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01);
Abstract
The concepts relate to radio white space utilization. One example can obtain information about a location of a device. The example can access a white space database to obtain radio white space frequencies relative to the location. This example can also perform active scanning of at least some of the radio white space frequencies at the location and not perform active scanning on allocated frequencies.