Patent ID: 10034159

Abstract:
Disclosed wireless systems, devices, and methods accommodate interference between different communication protocols. One illustrative wireless communications system embodiment includes: an accessory device and a media device. The accessory device supports a wireless streaming protocol and a wireless control protocol that interferes with the wireless streaming protocol. The media device intermittently communicates with the accessory device via the wireless control protocol while streaming an audio signal to the accessory device via the wireless streaming protocol, limiting a duration of each wireless control protocol communication interval to less than a guaranteed packet loss threshold (which exceeds twice the potential packet loss threshold) of the wireless streaming protocol. The devices may each include a radio module and a controller. The radio module operates in a first wireless mode to support the wireless control protocol, and operates in a second wireless mode to support the wireless streaming protocol, where the first modes are incompatible. The controller switches the radio module between the first and second wireless modes with a first mode duration less than a predetermined threshold.