Patent ID: 8494546

Claim:
A method to establish a particular wireless communication connection, a logical control connection, used for coordinating coexistence communications and operations between a service base station and a coexistence base station that respectively manage separate two WRAN (“Wireless Regional Area Network”) systems and that have an overlapping service area in which there is a bridge consumer premise equipment device (B-CPE), the method comprising: associating the B-CPE with the service base station and establishing service connections for data transmissions; selecting by the service base station the B-CPE to be used for relaying coexistence communications with the coexistence base station; at the B-CPE, ignoring coexistence communications from the coexistence base station until notified otherwise by the service base station; upon reception at the B-CPE of a coexistence operation scheduling transmission from the service base station, associating the B-CPE with the coexistence base station with which the service base station requires establishing a logical control connection; and after associating with the coexistence base station, establishing, by the B-CPE coexistence connections with the coexistence base station, wherein the coexistence connections are used only for coexistence communications; wherein in the logical control connection between the service base station and the coexistence base station over the service connections and the coexistence connections with the B-CPE as the relay, the service base station controls, maintains and schedules coexistence operations between itself, the B-CPE and the coexistence base station; and wherein coexistence operations are performed only during a predetermined coexistence operation period scheduled by the service base station, and after a coexistence period has expired, the B-CPE communicates only with the service base station and terminates communications with the coexistence base station.