Patent ID: 8340034

Claim:
A communication device, comprising: a Bluetooth device configured for Bluetooth communication according to Bluetooth protocol; a wireless LAN device configured for network communication according to wireless network protocol; an antenna switching circuit configured to connect the Bluetooth device to an antenna for the Bluetooth communication via one of three different communication paths and further configured to connect the wireless LAN device to the antenna for the network communication via the same or another of the three different communication paths, each of the three different communication paths: being connectable to the antenna via a single-pole triple-throw (SP3T) switch directly coupled to the antenna; having respective receive portions that are connectable to a reception coupler via another SP3T switch, the reception coupler operably coupled to respective receive ports of the wireless LAN device and Bluetooth device; and configured to respectively enable: Bluetooth reception and wireless LAN transmission; Bluetooth reception and wireless LAN reception; or Bluetooth transmission and wireless LAN reception; and an arbitration control system configured to arbitrate when the Bluetooth device is connected to the antenna via the antenna switching circuit and when the wireless LAN device is connected to the antenna via the antenna switching circuit, wherein the wireless LAN device is further configured to operate in a power save mode, and wherein the arbitration control system is further configured to initiate that the antenna switching circuit connect the antenna to the Bluetooth device for the Bluetooth communication when the wireless LAN device operates in the power save mode.