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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2008
Hoi-sheung Wilson SO, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Raghuveer Chereddy, Fremont, CA (US);
Raymond Rui-feng Liao, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Hoi-Sheung Wilson So, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Raghuveer Chereddy, Fremont, CA (US);
Raymond Rui-Feng Liao, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Abstract
A system and method for operating a communications system network, the method including operating an access point (AP) acting as a network controller in a frequency hopping network, the AP communicating with other communication devices of the network over m number of frequencies using a hopping sequence of at least some of the m number of frequencies and a dwell time d for the plurality of frequencies; and operating a communication device seeking to establish synchronized communication with other communication devices of the frequency hopping network without any cross-AP coordination, the communication device scanning all of the m number of frequencies using a scanning time s for each of the m number of frequencies; and, wherein the scanning time s is no greater than 1/m of the AP dwell time d.