Patent ID: 8325765

Claim:
A coexistence communications method for use between wireless networks comprising: using a synchronized super-frame transmission structure in the wireless network, the super-frames within the transmission structure comprise a plurality of synchronized frames, wherein a first frame includes a super-frame preamble, a super-frame control header, a data portion, and a regular self coexistence window (SCW); wherein a plurality of intermediate frames includes a preamble, a data portion, and a regular self-coexistence window; and wherein a last frame includes a second preamble, a second data portion, and a joining self-coexistence window that is accessed by the wireless networks by carrier sense multiple access; using the regular self-coexistence windows to exchange co-existence messages between the wireless networks, and reserve data portions of frames and the regular self-coexistence windows by a negotiation process; and using a last reserved regular self-coexistence window to announce intra-wireless network negotiation decisions.