Patent ID: 8346974

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a processing unit comprising at least one processor; a driver module that executes on the processing unit, the driver module comprising a hardware control interface that comprises a reception control interface component configured to receive reception control information from at least one network adapter to at least partially control the at least one network adapter to engage in communication in accordance with a wireless communication protocol using the hardware control interface, the hardware control interface is configured to exchange network adapter independent control information over at least one hardware data bus with network adapters of different types, wherein the reception control information comprises: a first field comprising at least one flag, each of the at least one flag representing data reception-related information, a second field comprising information on amount of noise in a network over which the at least one network adapter communicates, and a third field comprising information indicating a channel on which at least one packet has been received by the at least one network adapter.