Patent ID: 9660744
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04H,H04R,H04S

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving transmission segments from at least one device pursuant to a channel-switching schedule, the channel-switching schedule comprising an iteratively-repeated channel sequence; wherein the iteratively-repeated channel sequence comprises a plurality of channels, the channel-switching schedule specifying an assigned transmission duration for each channel, the assigned transmission duration for each channel comprising a plurality of time segments; for at least one channel of the plurality of channels, detecting a pattern of interference during at least one of a first time segment and a last time segment of the plurality of time segments of the assigned transmission duration; and responsive to the detected pattern of interference, automatically shifting, by a specified quantity of time that is less than the assigned transmission duration of the at least one channel, a future channel switch indicated by the iteratively-repeated channel sequence, such that the at least one of the first time segment and the last time segment is added to the assigned transmission duration of a neighboring channel in the iteratively-repeated channel sequence.