Patent ID: 8189710

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a first transceiver configured to transmit a WiMAX frame; and a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive within slots of a Bluetooth interval comprising six consecutive Bluetooth slots, and configured to refrain from transmitting and receiving from within slots that are not within a Bluetooth interval, wherein the first transceiver is operable to transmit a plurality of signals from a coexist controller associated with the first transceiver to the a second transceiver, one of the signals allowing the second transceiver to synchronize the Bluetooth interval with an offset with respect to a WiMAX frame, and one of the signals notifying the second transceiver of a timeperiod to refrain from transmitting a Bluetooth transmission, wherein the second transceiver is operable to delay the transmitting of the Bluetooth transmission until a retransmission window portion of the Bluetooth interval, the transmitting occurring after the timeperiod to refrain from transmitting the Bluetooth transmission; wherein the second transceiver is synchronized with the offset such that a start of at least one Bluetooth interval is one Bluetooth slot offset from a start of at least one WiMAX frame for a potential TX/RX conflict, the potential TX/RX conflict being when a WiMAX transmission would potentially interfere with a Bluetooth reception.