Patent ID: 7949364

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a control entity; and a radio modem including physical layer resources configured to support at least two radio protocols, the radio modem further including a radio modem interface and a local controller, the local controller being configured to: receive operational information from the control entity via the radio modem interface for at least one of the at least two radio protocols that share access to the physical layer resources, the operational information comprising one or more parameters for controlling operation of the at least one of the at least two radio protocols and schedule information including at least one time period during which the radio modem is allowed to communicate; receive status information directly from the at least two radio protocols; determine priorities for the at least two radio protocols for accessing the physical layer resources during the at least one time period based on the operational information and the status information corresponding to the at least two radio protocols; and schedule access to the physical layer resources during the at least one time period for the at least two radio protocols based on the determined priorities, the scheduling comprising reallocating a portion of the at least one time period that is reserved in received schedule information for a higher priority radio protocol to access the physical layer resources that the local controller determines will go unused to at least one lower priority radio protocol.