Patent ID: 8732328
Filing Date: 2014-05-20
Classification: G06F,G06T,H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a WiFi system including at least one wireless peripheral device that can communicate without authentication on a WiFi RF channel, comprising: configuring a host computing system having a single WiFi network controller both as an infrastructure mode WiFi client to maintain connectivity with a wireless WiFi network and as other than an infrastructure mode WiFi client to communicate with said at least one wireless peripheral device; operating said host computing system in infrastructure mode on said WiFi RF channel to maintain connectivity with said wireless WiFi network and to arbitrate access to said WiFi RF channel, and neither in infrastructure mode nor in standard ad hoc mode on said WiFi RF channel to communicate with said at least one wireless peripheral device; and operating said at least one wireless peripheral device on said WiFi RF channel to communicate with said host computing system.