Patent ID: 8639261

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a first wireless device in a network, a first wireless signal from a second wireless device in the network over a communication link during a first operational period; determining from receiving the first wireless signal at the first wireless device, transmission characteristics of the second wireless device in transmitting the first wireless signal to the first wireless device; determining, at the first wireless device via interaction with the second wireless device, communication link characteristics for implementation on the communication link to service communications between the first and second wireless devices; enacting the communication link characteristics for the communication link to service communications between the first and second wireless devices; associating the transmission characteristics and the communication link characteristics corresponding to the first wireless signal from the second wireless device over the communication link; storing, in a storage of the first wireless device, the associated transmission characteristics and the communication link characteristics corresponding to the communication link with the second wireless device; receiving, at the first wireless device, a second wireless signal from the second wireless device during a second operational period following the first operational period; determining from receiving the second wireless signal at the first wireless device, transmission characteristics of the second wireless device in transmitting the second wireless signal; searching the storage to identify transmission characteristics stored in the storage that matches the transmission characteristics determined for the second wireless signal; retrieving from the storage, corresponding communication link characteristics associated with a matching transmission characteristics, when there is a match of the transmission characteristics of the second wireless signal to the transmission characteristics of the first wireless signal in the storage; and using stored communication link characteristics of the matching transmission characteristics, instead of determining communication link characteristics for the second wireless signal by interacting with the second wireless device, to service communications on the communication link between the first and second wireless devices following reception of the second wireless signal, but when the matching transmission characteristic is not identified in the storage for the second wireless signal, determining the communication link characteristics for the communication link, via interaction with the second wireless device.