Patent ID: 8099057

Claim:
A base station equipped to utilize a network and a selected one of a plurality of radio frequency channels for wireless communications with a wireless communication device, comprising: a channel survey component that determines a signal power associated with one or more of the plurality of radio frequency channels; a noise calculation component that calculates an amount of noise associated with one or more of the plurality of radio frequency channels; a network communications component coupled to the network and arranged for managing a network communication, the network communication comprising one or more of radio frequency channel selection data, the amount of noise, and the signal power, wherein the radio frequency channel selection data identifies a selected one of the plurality of radio frequency channels; wherein the selected one of the plurality of radio frequency channels is selected by either: a channel selection component within the base station, and wherein the selected one of the plurality of radio frequency channels is identified in radio frequency channel selection data in an outgoing network communication from the network communications component; or an incoming network communication received by the network communications component, wherein the network communications component is configured to send the amount of noise and the signal power in an outgoing network communication, and to receive the radio frequency channel selection data in the incoming network communication; and a wireless communications component configured for transferring wireless communications data between the wireless communications device and the base station using the selected one of the plurality of radio frequency channels.