Patent ID: 8504100

Claim:
A method for multi-radio control in a personal electronic device having a plurality of radios of disparate radio technologies, in an environment having at least one remote wireless device that is accessible through at least one of said plurality of radios, said method comprising: searching for remote wireless devices available for two-way wireless communication with each radio of said plurality of radios of disparate radio technologies in response to receiving an instruction from a user to search for available remote wireless devices; creating, in a user interface, selectable representations of the available remote wireless devices available for two-way wireless communication with each radio of said plurality of radios of disparate radio technologies in response to receiving information indicating the remote wireless devices that are available to each radio of said plurality of radios of disparate radio technologies; and establishing a connection with at least one of said remote wireless devices in response to receiving a request from said user to establish a connection with said at least one of said remote wireless devices; wherein said step of searching for remote wireless devices includes: formatting a generic hardware interface request to search for available remote wireless devices; generating specific driver commands to each radio to search for available remote wireless devices based on said generic hardware interface request; sending said specific driver commands to a radio driver module associated with each radio; and receiving information indicating available remote wireless devices to each radio from each radio driver module.