Patent ID: 7610385

Claim:
A system for adaptively maximizing bandwidth utilization in a cordless telephone system operating over a predetermined communication band, comprising: an activity sensor to determine frequencies being used by other communication systems using a the predetermined communication band; a link monitor to monitor a quality of a communication link by measuring one or more channels in the predetermined communications band; a bandwidth utilization profile generator to generate a profile of the predetermined communication band; and a link manager, implemented by the cordless telephone system, to manage and control the communication link to preclude use of a given frequency of the predetermined communication band when said given frequency is being used by at least one of said other communication systems in accordance with information provided by the bandwidth utilization profile, wherein the link manager uses the quality of the communication link to determine said given frequency is being used by at least one of said other communication systems, wherein the bandwidth utilization profile generator is configured to receive information from a second link manager on an opposite side of the communication link in order to determine whether errors determined by the link monitor are due to a frequency hopping interferer or fixed frequency interferer, wherein a frequency of interference from the frequency hopping interferer varies in time according to a hop sequence and wherein a frequency of interference from the fixed frequency interferer is constant; a hop sequence regenerator to generate a pseudo-random hop sequence according to the bandwidth utilization information provided by the bandwidth utilization profile generator, wherein the link manager precludes use of the said given frequency being used by at least one of said other communication systems in accordance with the pseudo-random hop sequence.