Patent ID: 8244297

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising a device for communicating wirelessly with other devices, the device including: a first radio that is compatible with a wireless wide area network (WWAN) to receive a schedule, from a base station of the WWAN, the schedule to indicate when the first radio is scheduled to receive a signal over the WWAN; a second radio that is compatible with a wireless local area network (WLAN); and a non-wireless interface to convey, from the first radio to the second radio, timing information to indicate a reception time when the first radio is scheduled to receive the signal over the WWAN based on the schedule received by the first radio; wherein the timing information is relative to a clock common to the first radio and the second radio, the reception time has a start time, X, and an end time, Y, and the second radio is configured to compare, at a time T, an intended transmission period, L, of the second radio over the WLAN with the reception time of the first radio and to not transmit if T<X and T+L>X or if X<T<Y.