Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Bryan K Murawski

Guner Arslan

Jake Gordon Wood

Charles Anthony Weinberger

Logan A Lucas

A system and method for detecting and receiving packets that are transmitted over a network that utilizes a plurality of channels is disclosed. The system includes a radio circuit, which can be configured to receive packets over a plurality of channels, a processing unit, and a memory in communication with the processing unit. The processing unit loads a set of operating parameters in the radio circuit, which enables the radio circuit to detect and receive packets on a particular channel. If a preamble is not detected within a predetermined time period, the system hops to a different channel by loading a second set of operating parameters in the radio circuit. This process can be repeated for an arbitrary number of channels.

Software emulation of parallelized packet detection across channels

A system and method of intelligently scheduling actions from multiple network software stacks is disclosed. The scheduler uses information, such as requested start time, slip time, action duration and priority to schedule actions among a plurality of network stacks. In some embodiments, the scheduler attempts to maximize the radio usage by prioritizing the actions based not only on their given priority, but also based on their duration, and the ability for other actions to tolerate a delay in being performed.

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Belmont, MA, United States of America

Bryan K Murawski