Patent ID: 8406722

Claim:
A method for improving reception channel quality comprising: monitoring a radio frequency channel quality metric (RF metric) of a radio frequency channel in use by a device; determining a frequency band of the RF channel; determining as a target clock signal a clock signal used by a clocked component of the device to adjust when the RF metric violates a threshold, wherein determining the target clock signal to adjust comprises: determining one or more possible clock signals, each of the possible clock signals having a rate that has a harmonic within a given range of the center frequency; and selecting, as the target clock signal, the clock signal having a greatest overlap between a frequency band of the clock signal and the frequency band of the RF channel; determining a clock adjustment to apply to the target clock signal; adjusting a rate of the target clock signal according to the clock adjustment; and returning to monitor the RF metric of the radio frequency channel or an RF metric of another radio frequency channel in use by the device.