Patent ID: 8665778

Claim:
A method for limiting transmission power of a communication device having a plurality of transceivers, comprising: determining a desired maximum transmission power; determining a plurality of power contribution factors, each of the power contribution factors associated with a respective one of the transceivers and being determined based on an estimated bit rate of a data stream allocated to the respective transceiver; determining an expected transmission power based on, at least in part, a sum of the power contribution factors; responsive to the expected transmission power exceeding the desired maximum transmission power, selectively reducing or terminating the power contribution for at least one of the transceivers by re-assigning a service currently active on the transceiver to a second of the transceivers; and wherein selectively reducing or terminating the power contribution for at least one of the transceivers comprises: prioritizing each of a plurality of services active on the communication device; and reducing the power contribution for at least one of the services having a low priority.