Patent ID: 7035314

Claim:
An overlay adaptive frequency hopping apparatus for use in a point-to-point connection of a wireless communication system, wherein the communication system comprises at least one master device and at least one slave device, and wherein the communication system is capable of utilizing point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connections, comprising: (a) an initial frequency hopping kernel that determines an initial frequency hopping channel based on a predetermined input; and (b) a channel-quality based frequency hopping kernel, operatively coupled to the initial frequency hopping kernel, wherein the channel-quality based frequency hopping kernel determines whether the initial frequency hopping channel has good channel quality characteristics, and wherein the channel-quality based frequency hopping kernel selects a substitute frequency hopping channel if the initial frequency hopping channel does not have good channel quality characteristics; wherein the initial frequency hopping kernel comprises a Bluetooth™ frequency hopping kernel and the channel-quality based frequency hopping kernel selects a substitute frequency hopping channel based on a master clock and a master address.