Patent ID: 8687562

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a wireless transmit interface configured to transmit data wirelessly according to a plurality of automatically selectable frequency bands; a wireless receive interface having a unique identifier and being configured to receive data wirelessly according to the plurality of automatically selectable frequency bands, the wireless receive interface being tuned to particular frequency bands, among the plurality of automatically selectable frequency bands, according to a pseudorandomized schedule that associates each of the particular frequency bands with a discrete message start time; and a controller to unilaterally determine a given that: unilaterally selects a particular frequency band, from among the plurality of automatically selectable frequency bands, for a given data transfer, via wireless media, between a the apparatus as a first node and a similarly-configured apparatus as at least one separate second node, the unilateral selection of the particular frequency band being based identifying the unique identifier of the wireless receive interface in the similarly-configured apparatus as the at least one second separate node and a particular discrete message start time, tunes the wireless transmit interface in the apparatus as the first node to the particular frequency associated with the particular discrete message start time according to the pseudorandomized schedule, and directs transmission of the given data transfer from the first node to the at least one separate second node at the particular discrete message start time.