Patent ID: 8681707

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a first device to communicate information over a common wireless communication link, the first device to include a channel selection module operative to: perform energy measurements for available communication channels; generate a first list of available channel pairs each comprising a high rate physical channel and a low rate physical channel; calculate a weighted interference function for each channel pair in the first list of available channel pairs, the weighted interference function for each channel pair combining measured interferences of the high rate physical channel and the low rate physical channel of that channel pair to create a channel pair energy measurement for that channel pair that emphasizes or de-emphasizes the high rate physical channel or the low rate physical channel of that channel pair; generate a second list of channel pairs based on the first list of available channel pairs and on one or both of a high rate physical channel interference threshold value and a low rate physical channel interference threshold value; and select a final channel pair from the second list of available channel pairs based on the channel pair energy measurements.