Patent ID: 8831065

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a first wireless communication device, a plurality of radio-frequency (RF) signals in parallel using a plurality of receiver front-ends (RFEs), each of the RFEs monitoring a corresponding distinct subset of a plurality of hopping frequencies, one of the RFEs including a plurality of mixers; processing the RF signals in parallel to determine a hopping sequence relative to the hopping frequencies, the hopping sequence being determined based at least in part on at least two hopping frequencies monitored by different ones of the RFEs, the processing further comprising monitoring in parallel each hopping frequency of the corresponding distinct subset of the hopping frequencies for the one of the RFEs using a respective mixer of the plurality of mixers; and using the hopping sequence to receive packets transmitted by a second wireless communication device, to transmit packets to the second wireless communication device, or both.