Patent ID: 8400974

Claim:
A software-defined radio apparatus, comprising: a first wireless interface configured to receive a first pilot channel; at least one second wireless interface configured to receive one or more data channels; a first preamble detector in signal communication with the first wireless interface, the first preamble detector comprising logic configured to discriminate between preambles of interest and those not of interest to the software-defined radio apparatus; one or more decoding resources; a digital processor; and a storage device in data communication with the processor, the storage device comprising a computer program with instructions which are configured to, when executed by the digital processor, cause the apparatus to: assign, responsive to receiving an indication from the first preamble detector, a first set of the one or more decoding resources to decode the first pilot channel; and assign, in the absence of the indication, a second set of the one or more decoding resources to decode the one or more data channels; and wherein at least a portion of a received preamble comprises at least one tag length value (TLV), and the discrimination between preambles of interest and those not of interest to the software-defined radio apparatus is based at least in part on the at least one TLV.