Patent ID: 8644202

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a network adapter configured for wireless communication using a plurality of wireless technologies including WiMAX wireless technology and WiFi wireless technology, the network adapter being configured to share a plurality of common hardware components by limiting access to a wireless medium to only one wireless technology at given time, wherein said WiFi wireless technology is configured to utilize a time period of a WiMAX idle state for said WiFi wireless technology to scan for one or more available networks, and provide a scan list for the one or more available networks such that one or more applications are configured to create a WiFi connection without causing said WiMAX wireless technology to interrupt a connection thereof, and wherein, to scan for the one or more available WiFi networks, the WiFi wireless technology is configured to send a request to an associated WiFi driver which maintains an internal un-associated scan schedule, and wake up for the scan and indicate priority of unassociated scan, according to a scan request type.