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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRuthie D. Lyle, Jamel Pleasant Lynch JR., Usen E. Udoh, William Vigilante JR.
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Mitigation of interference effects in certain wireless communications is accomplished by the disclosed method. A wireless communications device communicates utilizing a protocol which requires hopping from channel to channel within a communications frequency band while transmitting. Operating according to the disclosed method, the device scans the available communications channels and identifies channel(s) experiencing interference from other transmitting devices. When hopping to such identified channels, the device transmits only null packets, thus avoiding the need to re-transmit packets due to interference and mitigating the effects of such interference on the communications data rate.
in a wireless communications system providing for communication over two or more channels utilizing a communications architecture that calls for hopping from channel to channel during data transmission, a method for mitigating the effects of interference, the method comprising:
In a wireless communications system providing for communication in the ISM communications frequency band by a communications device operating according to the Bluetooth standard, a method for mitigating the effects of interference, the method comprising:
In a wireless communications system providing for communication in the ISM communications frequency band by a communications device operating according to the IEEE 802.15.1 standard, a method for mitigating the effects of interference, the method comprising:
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