Patent ID: 8254983
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A communication device comprising: a plurality of circuit modules including a processing module, a memory module and a wireless telephony transceiver for communicating with a network in accordance with a wireless telephony protocol, wherein at least two of the plurality of circuit modules each include a millimeter wave transceiver; a radio frequency (RF) data bus that communicates first data between at least two of the plurality of circuit modules over a first millimeter wave communication path that operates in a 60 GHz frequency band via the millimeter wave transceiver of each of the plurality of circuit modules; and a millimeter wave modem coupled to receive second data from at least one external device and to transmit the second data over the RF data bus to at least one of the plurality of circuit modules, wherein the millimeter wave modem receives the second data over a second millimeter wave communication path.