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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2011
David Ruiz Lopez, Barcelona, ES;
Josemaria Ogara Fernandez DE Arroyabe, Barcelona, ES;
Juan Carlos Riveiro Insua, Valencia, ES;
Jonathan E. D. Hurwitz, Edinburgh, GB;
David Ruiz Lopez, Barcelona, ES;
Josemaria Ogara Fernandez de Arroyabe, Barcelona, ES;
Juan Carlos Riveiro Insua, Valencia, ES;
Jonathan E. D. Hurwitz, Edinburgh, GB;
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A communications device includes a wireless communications interface, a power line carrier (PLC) communications interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the wireless communications interface and to the PLC communications interface. The processing circuitry, in combination with at least one of the wireless communications interface and the PLC communications interface is operable to send a request for wireless communications interface operational parameters via the PLC communications interface, receive a response via the PLC communications interface, the response including wireless communications interface operational parameters corresponding to a wireless network, and configure wireless communications interface based upon response. In another operation, the processing circuitry is operable to listen for transmissions of at least one Wireless Access Point (WAP) of the wireless network. When transmissions of the at least one the WAP of the wireless network meets a sufficiency threshold, receive data service via the wireless communications interface and when the transmissions of the at least one the WAP of the wireless network fail to meet the sufficiency threshold, receive data service via the PLC communications interface.