Patent ID: 7817579

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: A wireless access point having a radio comprising two or more physical layer blocks; a configuration processor to arrange the two or more physical layer blocks to communicate according to one of at least two or more radio communication protocols or standards, the configuration processor to determine the availability of the two or more physical layer blocks prior to the arrangement of a particular physical block to a desired communication protocol, and when there is not an available physical layer block, reprogramming an idle one of the two or more physical layer blocks or one of the two or more physical layer blocks that is used less frequently than another of the two or more physical layer blocks to operate according to the desired communication protocol or standard; and a beacon transceiver to transmit a beacon to a remote device and to receive a reply from the remote device, wherein a beacon transmitted by said beacon transceiver provides an indication of the one or more available radio communication protocols and a received reply from the remote device provides an indication of a desired radio communication protocol.