Patent ID: 7454171

Claim:
A wireless terminal, comprising: a first transceiver operating in a wireless PAN network for communicating first data units in accordance with a first communications protocol and operating in a wireless communications band; a second transceiver operating in a wireless LAN network for communicating second data units in accordance with a second communications protocol and operating in a band substantially the same as said wireless communications band; said first transceiver establishing predefined slot times to listen for traffic for timing an assignment of relative priorities to the first data units and the second data units; and a controller coupled to said first and second transceivers, assigning a higher priority to said second data units if one of said second data units is sensed during one of said predefined slot times, to abort transmission of one of said first data units; said controller assigning a higher priority to said aborted first data unit than to said second data units if one of said second data units is sensed while attempting to retransmit said aborted first data unit in a slot following said one of said predetermined slots, to retransmit said aborted first data unit.