Patent ID: 8755391

Claim:
A method for operating at least a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology in a communication system, the method comprising: a network node providing a mobile terminal with a hybrid radio frame, the hybrid radio frame comprising elements of the first radio access technology and elements of the second radio access technology; wherein the hybrid radio frame comprises super frames of the first radio access technology and super frames of the second radio access technology; wherein at least one first super frame of the super frames of the first radio access technology also comprises elements of the second radio access technology; and wherein a starting point of at least one second super frame of the super frames of the second radio access technology is flexibly set within the at least one first super frame of the first radio access technology by determining a varying time shift between the starting point of the at least one second super frame of the second radio access technology, and a starting point of the at least one first super frame of the first radio access technology, wherein the starting point of the at least one second super frame of the second radio access technology begins in an area around the middle of the at least one first super frame of the first radio access technology, in order to avoid an overlap between control information of both the first and the second radio access technologies.