Patent ID: 8761689

Claim:
A method in a mobile terminal for use in selecting an operating frequency for operation as an access point, the mobile terminal including a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a second RF transceiver, the first RF transceiver being operative for communications in accordance with a first radio protocol with use of a first set of RF channel frequencies and the second RF transceiver being operative for communications in accordance with a second radio protocol with use of a second set of RF channel frequencies, the method comprising: identifying by the mobile terminal a list of noisy RF channel frequencies of the first set of RF channel frequencies, the noisy RF channel frequencies being detected through operation of the first RF transceiver of the mobile terminal in accordance with the first radio protocol; selecting by the mobile terminal one of the RF channel frequencies from the second set based on the identified list of noisy RF channel frequencies of the first set; and controlling the second RF transceiver of the mobile terminal to operate as an access point in accordance with the second radio protocol with use of the selected RF channel frequency as the operating frequency of the access point.