Patent ID: 8149818

Claim:
A method for communicating within a device, comprising: generating, in a first local transceiver of an integrated circuit located within the device, a first wireless radio frequency (RF) communication signal for wireless transmission to a second local transceiver also located within the device, the first wireless RF communication signal including at least one of an address or an ID of the second local transceiver; determining whether to transmit the first wireless RF communication signal directly to the second local transceiver via a first communication link or to a third local transceiver, also located within the device, for forwarding to the second local transceiver as a second wireless RF communication signal via a second communication link based on at least one of the address or ID provided to the third local transceiver; and wherein at least one of the first and second wireless RF communication signals is transmitted wirelessly through a substrate of the device and within an isolating boundary that forms a wave guide to channel wireless communication within the substrate through the wave guide, and in which the substrate is utilized as a communication link for RF signals and the isolating boundary that forms the wave guide isolates at least one of the first and second wireless RF communication signals transmitted wirelessly through the wave guide from other RF signals transmitted within the substrate.