Patent ID: 8611317

Claim:
A method for communication between mobile communication devices on a wireless network, the method comprising: performing a scan to detect a secondary communication device, wherein scanning includes receiving one or more beacons from the secondary communication device; determining if the secondary communication device has an available Bluetooth Alternate MAC Physical (BT AMP) layer based on the one or more beacons; establishing a Bluetooth connection (BT connection) between a primary communication device and the secondary communication device; establishing an IEEE 802.11 connection between the primary communication device and the secondary communication device; establishing a logical BT connection over the IEEE 802.11 connection in response to determining the availability of a Bluetooth Alternate MAC Physical (BT AMP) layer on the secondary communication device; simultaneously maintaining the BT connection, the logical BT connection, and the IEEE 802.11 connection; and transmitting and receiving i) Bluetooth data packets (BT data packets) over the logical BT connection, ii) IEEE 802.11 data packets over the IEEE 802.11 connection, and iii) Bluetooth (BT) configuration data over the Bluetooth connection.