Patent ID: 8363602

Claim:
A method, comprising: maintaining, at an apparatus, information regarding at least one of used communication protocols, operator identifiers, and bandwidths associated with one or more wireless networks served by the apparatus and wireless networks neighboring the one or more wireless networks served by the apparatus; forming, from the one or more wireless networks served by the apparatus and the wireless networks neighboring the one or more wireless networks served by the apparatus, a number of subsets, based on at least one of the used communication protocols, the operator identifiers, and the bandwidths associated with the one or more wireless networks served by the apparatus and the wireless networks neighboring the one or more served wireless networks; comparing the number of formed subsets with a number of available channels; determining that the number of formed subsets is greater than the number of available channels; and narrowing the bandwidth of the networks in the formed subsets according to capabilities within used communication protocols; wherein the forming of the subsets from the one or more wireless networks served by the apparatus and the wireless networks neighboring the one or more wireless networks served by the apparatus comprise grouping the networks served by the apparatus and the neighboring networks according to used communication protocols.