Patent ID: 8190167

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting, by an access point (AP) of an infrastructure based wireless network, a first wireless channel for communications among a first plurality of wireless devices of a non-infrastructure based wireless network, the selecting of the first wireless channel being configured to reduce a likelihood that communications among the first plurality of wireless devices, in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol, interfere with communications among a second plurality of wireless devices of the infrastructure based wireless network in accordance with a second wireless communication protocol that is different from the first wireless communication protocol, the second plurality of wireless devices including the AP; selecting, by the AP, a second wireless channel for secondary networking functions within the infrastructure based wireless network; transmitting, in accordance with the second wireless communication protocol, by the AP to a wireless device of the first plurality of wireless devices, a first information element to communicate an allocation of the first wireless channel to the first plurality of wireless devices; and transmitting, in accordance with the second wireless communication protocol, by the AP to the wireless device of the first plurality of wireless devices, a second information element to communicate an allocation of the second wireless channel to the first plurality of wireless devices for one or more secondary networking functions within the infrastructure based wireless network, wherein the one or more secondary networking functions include a paging function, a parking function, or a roaming function.