Patent ID: 9100984
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating data within a wireless network, the method comprising: configuring a first wireless device to operate in a first mode and a second mode, the first mode operating in accordance with a radio protocol and the second mode operating in accordance with the radio protocol; generating a first channel list including a plurality of channels supported in a first version of the radio protocol; generating a second channel list including a plurality of channels supported in one or more legacy versions of the first version of the radio protocol, the second channel list including at least a subset of the channels in the first channel list; scanning for communications from other wireless devices on channels from the first channel list when the first wireless device operates in the second mode; and setting up communications within the wireless network using channels only from the second channel list when the first wireless device operates in the first mode.