Patent ID: 8107968

Claim:
A method, comprising: assigning a communication time period to a first radio modality of a device, wherein the first radio modality of the device is allowed to perform one or more of data transmission and data reception within the assigned communication time period, and wherein the device has two or more radio modalities; estimating a time required by the first radio modality of the device to perform channel contention for accessing a wireless medium; calculating, using the estimated time, a time prior to start of the assigned communication time period, wherein the calculated time prior to start of the assigned communication time period is within a time period assigned to a second radio modality of the device; and dispatching instruction that the first radio modality of the device, at the calculated time prior to start of the assigned communication time period, can commence operations, wherein channel contention corresponding to the first radio modality of the device is initiated in response to the dispatched instruction.