Patent ID: 8537856

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a higher layer application subsystem to include a plurality of applications that are independent of any wireless technology, and a communication subsystem to include a transport interface and one or more service entities coupled to the transport interface, wherein the transport interface is to provide abstracted services to the higher layer application subsystem and the one or more service entities is to provide a reliable interface to a lower layer wireless link interface, wherein the transport interface to couple said application subsystem with said communication subsystem, wherein the transport interface includes a service access layer configured to cause services supported by the one or more service entities to be discoverable by an application of the higher layer application subsystem and to provide the reliable interface between the application and the services, wherein the reliable interface is to support a plurality of wireless technologies to provide the services, and wherein one of the one or more service entities includes an audio server configured to communicate with an audio manager, wherein the audio manager is configured to support interface requests from the higher layer application subsystem and other servers of the one or more service entities of communication subsystem.