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AssigneeSMSC Holdings S.A.R.L.
InventorsRalph Dickson Mason, Renyuan Li, Jean-Paul Rene Decruyenaere
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A wireless communications system and channel-switching method are disclosed herein. A source device and multiple sink devices independently maintain respective counters which track data packet errors. Each device independently switches channels only after its counter reaches a channel-switching threshold. The new channel switched-to is either determined by an indexed ordering of the available channels or by reference to a global clock maintained by each of the devices. Accordingly, all devices quickly arrive at a common channel. The system switches channels only when necessary and resolves quickly to a mutually acceptable channel. Therefore, unnecessary channel switching is minimized and data throughput is optimized.
A non-transitory computer accessible memory medium storing program instructions to switch a first device from a first communications channel to a second communications channel in a predetermined ordered set of communications channels, wherein the program instructions are executable to perform:
A first device for communicating with a second device in a wireless communications system, the first device having control logic for causing the first device to:
A channel-switching method in a wireless communications system including a plurality of devices including a source and at least one sink, the devices communicating in a first communications channel in a predetermined ordered set of communications channels, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer accessible memory medium storing program instructions to switch a first device from a first communications channel to a second communications channel in a predetermined ordered set of communications channels, wherein the program instructions are executable to perform:
A first device for communicating with a second device in a wireless communications system, the first device having control logic for causing the first device to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.