Patent ID: 9743449
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communicating, comprising: receiving wireless packets at a first device, over a primary data channel of a Bluetooth Low Energy protocol connection, according to an interval that indicates a window to transmit data and a window to receive data; receiving at the first device, over the primary data channel, a request to establish a secondary data channel, wherein the request to establish the secondary data channel is from a second device and includes secondary connection parameters, wherein the secondary connection parameters include an offset and a sub-interval, the offset is relative to an event on the primary data channel, the sub-interval is relative to the interval and shorter than the interval, and the event is one of the window to transmit data or the window to receive data; in response to the request from the second device, sending from the first device to the second device an acknowledgement message; and receiving wireless packets over a secondary data channel, at the first device from the second device, in response to the acknowledgement message and in accordance with the secondary connection parameters, wherein the secondary connection parameters further comprise a secondary hop value, and wherein receiving the wireless packets over the secondary data channel includes a secondary data channel hopping based on the secondary hop value that comprises generating a new channel number, wherein the generating the new channel number is configured to correspond to an n