Patent ID: 9603153
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A wireless host device for connecting a wireless client device to a wired network, the wireless host device including an electronic processor communicating with a wireless transceiver and executing a program stored in a non-transient medium on the electronic processor to: (a) scan a range of wireless networking frequencies divided according to channels for the presence of neighboring wireless host devices, wherein neighboring wireless host devices communicate via respective channels; (b) evaluate a signal strength from each neighboring wireless host device scanned in a respective channel to the wireless host device; (c) evaluate a noise level for each of the channels independent of the presence of neighboring wireless host devices; (d) determine a channel of operation for the wireless host device to communicate with the wireless client device, wherein the determined channel of operation is determined by considering the noise level on each channel, the signal strength of each neighboring wireless host device scanned, and the number of neighboring wireless host devices communicating via each respective channel; (e) transmit data using the determined channel of operation, and (f) display a graph of the neighboring wireless host devices as icons in bands corresponding to the respective channels, wherein: (i) the signal strengths from neighboring wireless host devices are processed to display the icons with corresponding distances on the graph in respective channels so that neighboring wireless host devices having stronger signals are displayed as icons closer to a common point representing the wireless host device, and neighboring wireless host devices having weaker signals are displayed as icons further from the common point representing the wireless host device, (ii) the noise levels for each of the channels are processed to display continuums of greater noise to lesser noise with distance on the graph in respective channels.