Patent ID: 8606184

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, from a first wireless network device of a communication system at a second wireless network device of the communication system, a coexistence message across a message based coexistence interface between the first wireless network device and the second wireless network device, the first wireless network device and the second wireless network device associated with different wireless technologies, wherein the coexistence message is associated with a high-level protocol between the first wireless network device and the second wireless network device, and wherein the coexistence message includes coexistence information and a message tag; determining whether a descriptor associated with the message tag is available in a descriptor list stored at the second wireless network device, wherein the descriptor indicates how the coexistence message should be processed by the second wireless network device; and processing, at the second wireless network device, the coexistence message in accordance with the descriptor, in response to determining that the descriptor associated with the message tag is available.