Patent ID: 7333800

Claim:
A method for scheduling instances of prevention processes for inhibiting undesirable wireless communication of wireless devices, the method comprising: identifying a first wireless device based on a detected undesirable wireless communication; determining a first inhibited time interval for the first wireless device for a first prevention process, the first inhibited time interval being indicative of an interval of time for which the first wireless device is inhibited from wirelessly communicating upon applying an instance of the first prevention process on the first wireless device, the applying the instance of the first prevention process including transmitting one or more wireless signals from a sniffer device to interfere with wireless communication of the first wireless device; initiating a first instance of the first prevention process for inhibiting the first wireless device by transmitting one or more first wireless signals from the sniffer device; setting a first timeout interval based at least upon the first inhibited time interval; performing scanning from the sniffer device for undesirable wireless communication from other wireless devices during at least a portion of the first timeout interval; and initiating a second instance of the first prevention process for inhibiting the first wireless device by transmitting one or more second wireless signals from the sniffer device upon termination of the first timeout interval.