Patent ID: 7420936

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: at least one wireless transceiver transmitting and receiving signals in accordance with a first and a second protocol to and from first and second network devices of a first and a second wireless network communicatively coupled to the apparatus; at least one controller manager coupled to said at least one wireless transceiver to operate said at least one wireless transceiver capable of performing said transmission and reception in accordance with said first and second protocols in a coordinated manner and establishing dominant devices, taking into consideration quality of service criteria to be achieved for the respective protocols wherein the quality of service criteria is based at least in part upon a first quality metric reflective of a first frequency of error maintained for the first protocol; and wherein said at least one controller manager is equipped with logic to determine message types of first messages to be transmitted to a selected one or selected ones of said first network devices in accordance with said first protocol, and to give priority to said first messages over second messages to be transmitted to a selected one or selected ones of said second network devices in accordance with said second protocol, if message types of said first messages are determined of a multi-media.