Patent ID: 8665735

Claim:
A method for providing network communication, the method comprising: in a first wireless mobile communication device (WMCD) comprising a first Quality of Service (QoS) management entity that manages QoS for a plurality of wireless protocols handled by said WMCD: determining, based on QoS information communicated between said first QoS management entity and a second QoS management entity residing in a second WMCD, whether said second WMCD has available resources for communicating data over a higher-power dissipating connection, said QoS information being communicated via a dedicated wireless QoS channel, wherein the dedicated wireless QoS channel is one of a plurality of dedicated wireless QoS channels and each of the plurality of wireless protocols corresponds to a unique one of the plurality of dedicated wireless QoS channels; and communicating, based on said determining, said data from said first WMCD to said second WMCD via a lower-power dissipating wireless connection to enable said second WMCD to subsequently transmit said communicated data via said higher-power dissipating connection.