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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2019
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Simon Ringland, London, GB;

Francis Scahill, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/10 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/10 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

There is disclosed a method of selecting a channel for wireless communication in a network, including communicating data over a first communication channel between an access point and a client device for a first time period, during the first time period, obtaining a first performance measurement indicative of the performance of the first channel, communicating data over a second communication channel between the access point and the client device for a second time period, during the second time period, obtaining a second performance measurement indicative of the performance of the second channel, ranking the first and second channels in order of performance taking the first and second performance measurements into account when doing so, selecting an operating channel using the outcome of the ranking.


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