Patent ID: 8305971

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a wireless transceiver operable to communicate over a plurality of channels, the wireless transceiver comprising a receiver having a receiver sensitivity setting; channel selection logic in communication with the wireless transceiver and operable to select a channel for the wireless transceiver; wherein the channel selection logic is operable to acquire data representative of intensity, start time, stop time, and rate of occurrence for at least one persistent interference device detected by the receiver of the wireless transceiver operating on at least one of the plurality of channels; wherein the channel selection logic is operable to determine a duration that the at least one persistent interference device operates from the start time and stop time; wherein the channel selection logic is operable to select a channel for the wireless transceiver based on the data representative of intensity, duration and rate of occurrence for the at least one persistent interference device; and, wherein the channel selection logic is operable to selectively update the data representative of intensity, duration and rate of occurrence for the at least one persistent interference device responsive to a detected signal level from the at least one persistent interference device being above a selected threshold of the receiver sensitivity setting of the receiver.