US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on May 12 for "Methods and apparatus for supporting operator device sharing of time and frequency resources in a band" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,031, issued on May 12, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for supporting operator device sharing of time and frequency resources in a band" was invented by Rauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for implementing a spectrum scheduling controller (SSC) are described. The spectrum scheduling controller receives resources requests from operator devices, e.g., access points which can be in the form of base stations. The access points can, and sometimes do, correspond to different operators and/or use different communications technologies. The SSC de...