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Patent No.:

US 9743220 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2015
Applicant:

Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Itzik Shahar, Kadima, IL;

Hsin-Yi Kao, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Brian J. Sublett, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Ofer Hareuveni, Haifa, IL;

Hakan Magnus Eriksson, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Dongsheng Bi, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel IP Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/008 (2013.01); H04W 74/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for employing channel inhibition (CI) with adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) in connection with Bluetooth (BT) are discussed. One example system employing such techniques comprises a BT master component operating on a plurality of channels via AFH; and a processor configured to: assign, based on a set of criteria, a first (e.g., 'UNUSED') status and a priority level to one or more channels, and a second (e.g., 'USED') status to each other channel; determine whether a total number of channels set as ‘USED’ is less than a minimum number of required channels; and in response to a determination that the total number of channels set as ‘USED’ is less than the minimum number, repeatedly assign a ‘USED’ status to a channel having a lowest priority level among channels with the ‘UNUSED’ status, until the total number of channels set as ‘USED’ equals the minimum number.


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