Patent ID: 9514079
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An Adaptive Docking Adapter (ADA), comprising: a processor for identifying channels among a plurality of different predefined wireless channel standards, each predefined wireless channel standard defining a set of channels and a corresponding set of wireless configuration parameters including channel bandwidth, modulation scheme, and physical data rate, the processor for further performing load measurements of wireless channels to calculate an available bandwidth per available channel; memory for storing a channel map and for storing a selected channel from among the channels identified by the processor having a determined highest expected throughput; and an Adaptive Channel Selection (ACS) engine for switching modes among a plurality of wireless configuration modes corresponding to the plurality of different predefined wireless channel standards to determine an optimum wireless configuration mode corresponding to a wireless channel having a highest expected throughput according to the load measurements and the wireless configuration parameters for that channel, the ACS using, when a docking request is received wirelessly from a computing device, the determined optimum wireless configuration and channel having the highest expected throughput as a current channel for wireless docking to the computing device to wirelessly transmit data from input devices for controlling the computing device and to wirelessly receive video display data for display on a monitor; the processor being further configured to access channel map information obtained by at least one other neighboring ADA via an information channel while performing wireless docking with the computing device.