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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Pierre B. Vandwalle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tashbeeb Haque, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andreas Wolf, San Mateo, CA (US);
Saravanan Balasubramaniyan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and methods are provided for opportunistically conducting data communications on multiple wireless channels. In these methods, a device is engaged in data communications with a second device and receives a conflicting communication demand requiring action on one or more channels other than the data-communication channel (e.g., to conduct a channel scan, to issue or receive a beacon). The device arranges a schedule of channel switches to satisfy the communication demand and advises the second device of the schedule, and may explicitly invite the second device to implement the schedule. To the extent the second device does so, the data communications continue on the other channels. The devices may be participating in a synchronized peer-to-peer communication environment that requires their attendance on the data-communication channel and that is not associated with the other channels.