Patent ID: 9614579
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04B

Claim:
1. A method for operating a device in a network using a channel hopping communication protocol, the method comprising: generating a numerical sequence of values having a length L and storing at least a portion of the numerical sequence of values in storage logic on the device, wherein each of the values of the numerical sequence is associated with a corresponding sequence index value and wherein the values of the numerical sequence do not represent channel numbers of a plurality of channels of the network; receiving a channel offset value for a communication link between the device and a second device in the network; recording a channel status indicating which ones of the plurality of channels are good to use for the channel hopping communication protocol; generating a good channel list having a length N according to the recorded channel status; and selecting a channel from the plurality of channels to use for communication with the second device during each hop by: