Patent ID: 8218564

Claim:
A method for facilitating radio coordination in order to prevent simultaneous exchanges of data, comprising: processing status information associated with a first radio and a second radio within a node, wherein the status information comprises at least one of a start time for transmission or reception of data corresponding to at least one of the first radio or the second radio, wherein processing the status information further comprises polling at least one of the first radio or the second radio in order to access the status information; and scheduling signal communications of the first radio and second radio based on the processed status information to avoid interference between the first radio and the second radio, wherein scheduling the signal communications of the first radio and second radio further comprises (i) when the second radio is not communicating data as indicated by the processed status information, commencing at least one of a transmission or a reception of a frame at the first radio, and (ii) generating a coordination message to be transmitted from the first radio to the second radio to prevent a signal transmission at the second radio during a signal reception at the first radio.