Patent ID: 8867481

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining an available frequency band for communication; determining a frequency f c of a carrier based on the available frequency band; communicating with one or more communication devices via a first communication channel within the available frequency band using the carrier set to the frequency f c ; selecting the first communication channel from a set of communication channels within the available frequency band, the set of communication channels including (i) a first subset of communication channels and (ii) a second subset of at least one communication channel, wherein no communication channel in the first subset overlaps with another communication channel in the first subset, and a communication channel in the second subset (i) overlaps with at least two communication channels in the first subset, and (ii) has a frequency bandwidth that corresponds to a cumulative bandwidth of the at least two communication channels in the first subset; and after communicating via the first communication channel, communicating with one or more communication devices via a second communication channel within the available bandwidth using the carrier set to the frequency f c , wherein a center frequency of the first channel is different than a center frequency of the second channel.