Patent ID: 6894988
Filing Date: 2005-05-17
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a first and a second wireless transceiver to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a first and a second protocol to and from network devices communicatively coupled to the apparatus via a first and a second wireless network respectively; and a first and a second controller manager coupled to the first and second wireless transceivers to control the first and second wireless transceivers to perform said transmits and receives in a coordinated manner in accordance with a time sharing schedule and further wherein the first and second controller managers include a first and a second time sharing state machine respectively, with the first and second state machine complementarily configured to cause the first and second controller managers to control the first and second transceivers in complementary transmit, receive and suspend states, in accordance with the time sharing schedule; a time sharing state machine coupled to the first and second controller managers to cause the first and second controller managers to control the first and second transceivers in complementary transmit, receive and suspend states, in accordance with the time sharing schedule; and a time sharing manager to adaptively manage the time sharing schedule, wherein the time sharing manager adaptively manages the time sharing schedule based at least in part on transmit or receive workloads of said first and second wireless networks.