Patent ID: 8073436

Claim:
A method of controlling a wireless mobile having multiple interfaces, comprising: having said mobile be aware of its applications running on it; having said mobile be aware of its operating situation; said multiple interfaces including heterogeneous radio interfaces, and having said mobile control processes, including use of said heterogeneous radio interfaces, of said mobile during silent periods based on one or more of its application awareness and its operating situation awareness, said silent periods being brief intervals during which an application running on said mobile has no application traffic to send or receive; further including having said mobile control use of said interfaces by using a second interface, during a silent period of a second application running on said mobile and using said second interface, to support a first application running on said mobile and using a first interface that is heterogeneous to said second interface such as to use both said first and second heterogeneous interfaces concurrently during said silent period to support said first application.