Patent ID: 7542728

Claim:
Apparatus for communication, comprising: at least one radio frequency (RF) receiver circuit, which is coupled to receive first and second RF signals that are transmitted respectively over short-range and long-range wireless networks and carry first and second data modulated in accordance with respective network protocols, and which is arranged to downconvert the first and second RF signals so as to output first and second downconverted signals; and a baseband processing circuit, comprising processing components that are coupled to receive and process the first and second downconverted signals so as to extract the first and second data from the signals, the processing components having a first configuration for demodulating the first downconverted signals received from the short-range network and a second configuration for demodulating the second downconverted signals received from the long-range network, wherein the processing components comprise at least one programmable component, and wherein the baseband processing circuit comprises a memory for holding program code to drive the at least one programmable component, the program code comprising first code for driving the at least one programmable component in the first configuration and second code for driving the at least one programmable component in the second configuration.