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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04B 3/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 69/18 (2013.01); H04B 3/544 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5408 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5433 (2013.01); Y04S 40/18 (2018.05);
Abstract
A communication device in a network may receive a stream of frames from the network, in which each frame includes one or more beacon packets. A communication protocol being used by the network may be identified by tracking a preselected field within a sequence of beacon packets, in which the preselected field varies in a first known manner for a first protocol and in a second known manner for a second protocol. The communication device may then join to the network using the identified communication protocol to transmit and receive data.