Patent ID: 8457554

Claim:
A method for wireless communication, the method comprising: in a Bluetooth radio: controlling a scan of a received signal within a frequency range; storing, as a signal profile, a respective magnitude of said received signal at each frequency when each magnitude exceeds a threshold level, each magnitude that exceeds the threshold level being associated with a corresponding signal in said received signal; determining a respective bandwidth associated with each signal in said received signal; determining a respective type of each signal in said received signal based at least upon whether the respective bandwidth of the corresponding signal is greater than a defined bandwidth value, wherein the respective type of each signal is determined to be a Bluetooth signal when the corresponding bandwidth is determined to be less than the defined bandwidth value, wherein the respective type of each signal is determined to be an interferer signal when the corresponding bandwidth is determined to be greater than the defined bandwidth value; initiating a Bluetooth page/inquiry scan when the determined type corresponds to a Bluetooth signal; and controlling the scan for identifying an additional signal in said received signal, wherein the respective type of the additional signal is determined based at least in part upon the signal profile.