Adaptive wireless access point discovery
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsJeemil N. SHAH, Ashok BHATIA, Yuhua HU, Gengsheng ZHANG, Arie RAHMAT
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Abstract
Disclosed are a system, apparatus, and method for adaptive discovery and scanning of wireless access points. In one embodiment, a set of channels can be scanned in a first iteration to discover wireless access points. In one embodiment, a discovery profile based on the discovered wireless access points can be determined and in a second iteration, a subset of the set of channels can be scanned. In one embodiment, the subset consists of non-overlapping channels selected according to the discovery profile.
Claims24
A computer-implemented method for wireless access point discovery, the method comprising:
- scanning a set of channels in a first scan iteration to discover one or more wireless access points;
- determining a discovery profile based on one or more discovered wireless access points;
- and
- scanning a subset of the set of channels in a second scan iteration, wherein the subset of the set of channels consists of non-overlapping channels selected according to the discovery profile.
A machine readable storage medium containing executable code for wireless access point discovery, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- scan a set of channels in a first scan iteration to discover one or more wireless access points;
- determine a discovery profile based on one or more discovered wireless access points;
- and
- scan a subset of the set of channels in a second scan iteration, wherein the subset of the set of channels consists of non-overlapping channels selected according to the discovery profile.
A data processing device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a storage device coupled to the processor, the storage device storing instructions for wireless access point discovery, which, when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- scan a set of channels in a first scan iteration to discover one or more wireless access points;
- determine a discovery profile based on one or more discovered wireless access points;
- and
- scan a subset of the set of channels in a second scan iteration, wherein the subset of the set of channels consists of non-overlapping channels selected according to the discovery profile.
An apparatus for wireless access point discovery comprising:
- means for scanning a set of channels in a first scan iteration to discover one or more wireless access points;
- means for determining a discovery profile based on one or more discovered wireless access points;
- and
- means for scanning a subset of the set of channels in a second scan iteration, wherein the subset of the set of channels consists of non-overlapping channels selected according to the discovery profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.