Patent ID: 7801077

Claim:
A channel hopping method of interference avoidance for a wireless communication network including a plurality of channels, said method comprising: employing a first wireless master node including a plurality of said channels; employing a number of wireless slave nodes including a plurality of said channels; wirelessly communicating between said first wireless master node and said number of wireless slave nodes over a particular one of said channels; deciding at least one of said first wireless master node and said number of wireless slave nodes to hop to a different one of said channels; and selecting: (a) said different one of said channels, in order to be as far away as possible from a number of said channels, which are known to cause interference to wireless communications between said first wireless master node and said number of wireless slave nodes, or (b) said different one of said channels, in order to be as close as possible to one of said channels of a different second wireless master node, which is compatible with said first wireless master node, but without said different one of said channels being employed by said different second wireless master node.