Patent ID: 7092428

Claim:
A selective hopping method for hit avoidance in a frequency hopping spread spectrum communication system utilizing an original hopping sequence, the communications system having a plurality of available channels for receiving signal packet traffic utilizing a plurality of receiving signal slots, the plurality of available channels all being available for use in frequency hopping, comprising the steps of; (1.1) dividing the plurality of available channels into a plurality of partitions; (1.2) determining a combination of said plurality of partitions in a predetermined distribution based on the number of channels in each of said plurality of partitions; (1.3) forming a partition sequence by assigning each of said plurality of partitions into a plurality of preselected receiving signal slot sets based on said combination; and (1.4) generating a generated hopping sequence by partition mapping from the original hopping sequence, wherein said partition mapping is responsive to said partition sequence.