Patent ID: 7408907

Claim:
A method for managing wireless communications between a wireless network base station device and a plurality of wireless client devices using a non-frequency hopping communication protocol operating on a wireless network in a radio frequency band that is shared by devices that are not part of the wireless network, comprising: monitoring the radio frequency band in proximity to each of the plurality of wireless client devices for radio frequency energy associated with devices that are not part of the wireless network; generating spectrum profile information specific to each wireless client device based on said monitoring, wherein generating comprises generating spectrum profile information describing activity in the radio frequency band at positions proximate to each of the plurality of wireless client devices, wherein the spectrum profile information includes information identifying signals determined to be occurring that are from devices that are not using said non-frequency hopping communication protocol and are not part of the wireless network but which interfere with radio communications between the wireless network base station and the respective wireless client devices; transmitting the spectrum profile information obtained in proximity to each of the plurality of wireless client devices to said wireless network base station device; and at the wireless network base station device, receiving the spectrum profile information associated with the respective wireless client devices and adjusting a parameter of said non-frequency hopping communication protocol at the wireless network base station device when the wireless network base station device communicates with a particular wireless client device based on the spectrum profile information associated with the particular wireless client device.