Patent ID: 9750034
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for communication via a radio frequency channel between a wireless access point and a set of wireless stations that are clients of the wireless access point, the method comprising: identifying, by the wireless access point, a first subset of wireless stations from the set of wireless stations, wherein each of the set of wireless stations is associated with a respective Received Signal Strength Intensity (RSSI) value at the access point and wherein the respective RSSI value associated with each of the wireless stations comprising the first subset exceeds an RSSI threshold; assigning, by the wireless access point, the first subset of wireless stations to a first reception window; and causing, by the wireless access point, a transmission of an identifier of each of the subset of wireless stations and an identifier of the first reception window wherein the transmission occurs during a first transmission window via the radio frequency channel; wherein the RSSI threshold is determined on a basis comprising RSSI values corresponding to signals received as interference at the access point from further wireless stations that are not clients of the access point, the further wireless stations being in communication with another access point; and determining a change for a receiver characteristic of a receiver of the wireless access point and causing the receiver to apply the change to the receiver characteristic before a start of the first reception window, the magnitude of the change being on a basis comprising the RSSI values corresponding to the signals received as interference at the access point from the further wireless stations that are not clients of the wireless access point, whereby to prevent the access point from decoding and synchronising to the signals received from the further wireless stations.