Patent ID: 8571479

Claim:
One or more computer-readable memory devices storing processor-executable instructions, that responsive to execution by a processor, implement a wireless communicator to: transmit, via a transmitter, a link-setup request through a wireless network to a device, the link-setup request requesting a current transmit power of the device and transmitted at a lower-than-nominal power level of the transmitter effective to reduce saturation of a receiver of the device; receive, via a receiver, a link-setup response through the wireless network from the device, the link-setup response indicating the current transmit power of the device and having been received at a received power; determine, based on the received power at which of the link-setup response is received, a desired data-signal transmit power for the device; and transmit, via the transmitter, an indication of the desired data-signal transmit power through the wireless network to the device.