Patent ID: 7787411

Claim:
A method of communicating between a gaming console and a wireless accessory using a wireless protocol wherein said gaming console and said wireless accessory transmit and receive based on a time frame, said method comprising: transmitting an upstream data packet in an upstream sub frame from said wireless accessory to said gaming console, said upstream data packet comprising a first upstream data sub packet and a first upstream voice sub packet; receiving at least one of a downstream voice packet and a downstream data packet in a downlink sub frame from said gaming console; wherein voice data and wireless accessory data are simultaneously communicated via said wireless protocol, and wherein transmission of each packet is in a frequency hopping spread spectrum system on a different frequency associated with a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) time slot; assigning said first upstream data sub packet and said first upstream voice sub packet a first time slot; and assigning a subsequent upstream data packet that comprises a subsequent data sub packet and a subsequent upstream voice sub packet to a subsequent time slot.