Patent ID: 8537798

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, at a wireless local area network (WLAN) device of a communication system, a WLAN communication time interval associated with the WLAN device for performing WLAN communication operations and a wireless wide area network (WWAN) communication time interval associated with a WWAN device of the communication system for performing WWAN communication operations, wherein the WLAN device is coupled with the WWAN device; determining, at the WLAN device, whether the WLAN communication time interval is in progress to determine whether to perform one or more WLAN communication operations; performing, at the WLAN device, the one or more WLAN communication operations in response to determining that the WLAN communication time interval is in progress; in response to determining that the WLAN communication time interval is not in progress, determining whether a transmit sub-interval of the WWAN communication time interval is in progress, determining, at the WLAN device, not to perform the one or more WLAN communication operations in response to determining that the transmit sub-interval of the WWAN communication time interval is in progress; and performing, at the WLAN device, the one or more WLAN communication operations in response to determining that a receive sub-interval of the WWAN communication time interval is in progress.