Patent ID: 7945206
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a communication device having a first transceiver that operates in a first communication system in the presence of a second transceiver that operates in a second communication system that is unrelated to the first communication system, the method comprising: providing access to one or more data packets, wherein each of the packets is for transmission by the first transceiver on either a first type of communication link or a second type of communication link, wherein the first type of communication link has a quality of service requirement that requires retransmission of an already-transmitted packet until successful delivery of the packet is detected by the communication device, and the second type of communication link has a quality of service requirement that permits but does not require retransmission of the already-transmitted packet until successful delivery of the already-transmitted packet is detected by the communication device; for each of a number of transmission time periods, each associated with a respective one of a number of subsequent acknowledgement time periods, making a packet transmission scheduling decision based, at least in part, on whether a candidate data packet selected from the one or more data packets is for transmission on the first or second type of communication link and on whether the second transceiver is scheduled to transmit an interfering signal during an associated subsequent acknowledgement time period, which interfering signal would disturb reception of a receive status report that would indicate a delivery status of the candidate data packet if the candidate data packet were to be transmitted during the transmission time period.