Techniques for enhanced co-existence of co-located radios
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJames Beninghaus, Jerome Tu, Neil Hendin, William Ngo, Welly Kasten
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Abstract
Techniques for enhanced co-existence for co-located radios are described. A mobile computing device may comprise a first radio module operative to communicate wirelessly across a first link using a first set of communications channels, a second radio module operative to communicate wirelessly across a second link using a second set of communications channels, and a coordination module operative to receive information regarding operation of the first and second radio modules, and modify a communications parameter for the first or second radio module based on the received information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
Claims17
A mobile computing device, comprising:
- a first radio module to communicate wirelessly across a first link using a first set of communications channels;
- a second radio module to communicate wirelessly across a second link using a second set of communications channels, the first and second set of communications channels having a certain number of shared frequencies;
- and
- a coordination module communicatively coupled with the first and second radio modules, the coordination module to receive information regarding operation of first and second radio modules, select a set of masked channels using the shared frequencies based on the received information from the first and second radio modules, and send a control directive to at least one of the first and second radio modules to operate using one or more communications channels outside of the set of masked channels and permit the first radio module and the second radio module to operate at the same time, the coordination module to modify the set of masked channels when the first radio module or the second radio module switches to a different communications channel.
A method, comprising:
- receiving information regarding operation of first and second radio modules using first and second sets of communications channels having a certain number of shared frequencies;
- selecting a set of masked channels using the shared frequencies based on the received information from the first and second radio modules;
- sending a control directive to at least one of the first and second radio modules to operate using one or more communications channels outside of the set of masked channels to permit the first and second radio modules to operate at the same time;
- and
- modifying the set of masked channels when the first radio module or the second radio module switches to a different communications channel.
An article comprising a storage medium containing instructions that when executed enable a system to:
- receive information regarding operation of first and second radio modules using first and second sets of communications channels having a certain number of shared frequencies;
- select a set of masked channels using the shared frequencies based on the received information from the first and second radio modules;
- send a control directive to at least one of the first and second radio modules to operate using one or more communications channels outside of the set of masked channels to permit the first and second radio modules to operate at the same time;
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- modify the set of masked channels when the first radio module or the second radio module switches to a different communications channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.