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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. 05, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2012
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hao Zhu, Ocala, FL (US);

Srinivas Katar, Gainesville, FL (US);

Lawrence W. Yonge, III, Ocala, FL (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 3/54 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2013.01); H04B 3/542 (2013.01); H04B 2203/5495 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01);
Abstract

A feature-capable device that supports channel reuse and is part of a local network can determine whether to reuse or share a communication channel with a neighbor network when the local network and/or the neighbor network include at least one legacy device that does not support adaptive channel reuse. The feature-capable device can determine channel performance measurements associated with each legacy device in the local network and/or in the neighbor network. The feature-capable device can compare the channel performance measurements against corresponding performance thresholds. The local network and the neighbor network can reuse the channel if the channel performance measurements associated with each of the legacy devices meet the corresponding performance thresholds. The local network and the neighbor network can share the channel if the channel performance measurements of at least one of the legacy devices does not meet the corresponding performance thresholds.


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