Patent ID: 6958987

Claim:
A transceiving unit for wireless communications over the industrial-scientific-medical (ISM) spectrum comprising: (a) an RF sub-module for transceiving information in a predefined frequency band; and (b) a processor coupled and adapted to provide time slot and frame timing to the RF sub-module, wherein N hopping frequencies ranging between X MHz and Y MHz and a minimum hop rate of Z hops per second are maintained, the N hopping frequencies are spaced K MHz apart and each of the N hopping frequencies support an R millisecond frame having M time slots that change carrier signals after a predetermined number of consecutive frames, and wherein at least one time slot of the frame shares at least one of a set of sync bits, a set of signaling bits, a set of CRC bits or a set of FECC bits with at least one adjacent time slot of the frame, and wherein N and M are integers and K, R, X and Y are real numbers.