Patent ID: RE41736

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a first wireless transceiver to transmit and receive signals on a first wireless network in accordance with a first protocol to and from a first plurality of network devices; a second wireless transceiver to transmit and receive signals on a second wireless network in accordance with a second protocol to and from a second plurality of a network devices pursuant to the second protocol a first and a second controller manager coupled to the first and second wireless transceivers to control the first and second wireless transceivers to perform said transmits and receives in a coordinated manner in accordance with a time sharing schedule in time slots of variable duration and further wherein the first and second controller managers include a first and a second time sharing state machine respectively, with the first and second state machine complementarily configured to complementarily cause the first and second controller managers to control the first and second transceivers in complementary transmit, receive and suspend states for the duration of each time slot , in accordance with the time sharing schedule; and a time sharing manager to adaptively manage the time sharing schedule, wherein the time sharing manager adaptively manages the time slot duration based at least in part on transmit or receive workloads of said first and second wireless networks. a time sharing manager to adaptively manage the time sharing schedule, wherein the time sharing manager adaptively manages the time sharing schedule based at least in part on transmit or receive workloads of said first and second wireless networks.