Patent ID: 7483674

Claim:
A method of selecting a carrier frequency to be used to communicate information to a transceiver in a communication system, the method comprising: a) selecting a candidate carrier frequency from a set of one or more carrier frequencies; b) using the candidate carrier frequency to transmit a probe message to the transceiver; c) determining whether a corresponding response message has been received from the transceiver; d) until each of the one or more carrier frequencies has been selected as the candidate carrier frequency, selecting another carrier frequency from the set of one or more carrier frequencies for use as the candidate carrier frequency and repeating b) through d); e) using sequence of arrival of the response messages as a basis for selecting one of the candidate carrier frequencies for use as a selected carrier frequency for subsequently communicating information to the transceiver, wherein the selected carrier frequency is the candidate carrier frequency that corresponds to a last received one of the response messages.