System and method for multiprotocol wireless communication
AssigneeSymbol Technologies, Inc.
InventorAmit Jain
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Abstract
A method compares a plurality of wireless protocols utilized on a radio frequency channel. Each wireless protocol utilizes a corresponding predetermined number of subcarrier frequencies on the channel. A number is generated as a function of a comparison of the corresponding predetermined numbers. The frequency channel is divided by the number to generate a set of subcarrier frequencies. Each of the wireless protocols is assigned to a corresponding subset of subcarrier frequencies. Wireless communications are conducted over each subset of subcarrier frequencies utilizing the corresponding wireless protocol during a same time period.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- comparing a plurality of wireless protocols utilized on a radio frequency channel, each wireless protocol utilizing a corresponding predetermined number of subcarrier frequencies on the channel;
- generating a number as a function of a comparison of the corresponding predetermined numbers;
- dividing the frequency channel by the number to generate a set of subcarrier frequencies;
- assigning each of the wireless protocols a corresponding subset of subcarrier frequencies;
- and
- conducting wireless communication over each subset of subcarrier frequencies utilizing the corresponding wireless protocol during a same time period.
A system, comprising:
- a first wireless device utilizing a first wireless protocol utilizing a first predetermined number of subcarrier frequencies on a radio frequency channel;
- and
- a second wireless device utilizing a second wireless protocol having a second predetermined number of subcarrier frequencies on the channel,
- wherein, one of the first and second wireless devices compares the first wireless protocol to the second wireless protocol, generates a number as a function of a comparison of the first and second predetermined numbers, divides the channel by the number to generate a set of subcarrier frequencies, assigns the first wireless protocol to a first subset of subcarrier frequencies and assigns the second wireless protocols to a second subset of subcarrier frequencies, and
- wherein, during a same time period, the first wireless device conducts wireless communications over the first subset of subcarrier frequencies utilizing the first wireless protocol and the second wireless devices conducts wireless communications over the second subset of subcarrier frequencies utilizing the second wireless protocol.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.