creator Taher, Tanim creator Roberson, Dennis A method and apparatus for determining and sharing RF spectrum availability. The method includes automatically sensing and analyzing a spectrum to identify used and/or unused portions of the spectrum, and automatically communicating the used and/or unused portions of the spectrum to a spectrum owner or a spectrum user. The invention has particular use in automatically identifying and quantifying current spectrum users, automatically reporting the current spectrum users to a spectrum owner, and/or allocating unused spectrum portions to users. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2017-06-16T15:32:04Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 9681307.pdf: 710710 bytes, checksum: e495078d93d960aeeafdda51e5bf11ac (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-16T15:32:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1089 bytes, checksum: 0a703d871bf062c5fdc7850b1496693b (MD5) 9681307.pdf: 710710 bytes, checksum: e495078d93d960aeeafdda51e5bf11ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-13 Illinois Institute of Technology 2017-06-16 2017-06-13 9,681,307 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/4112 en CC0 1.0 Universal http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access