Patent ID: 7941178

Claim:
A method for scheduling communications among frames of different wireless protocols comprising: determining at a communication device, a temporal reference corresponding to a beginning of a first wireless frame of a first wireless protocol; aligning a second wireless frame of a second wireless protocol with an offset from the temporal reference such that a beginning of the second wireless frame and a beginning of subsequent wireless frames of the second wireless protocol are offset from a beginning of the first wireless frame and a beginning of subsequent wireless frames of the first wireless protocol; arranging transmissions in accordance with the second wireless protocol within the second wireless frame to not temporally overlap with reception in accordance with the first wireless protocol in the first wireless frame; polling to request retransmission by an external device in accordance with the second wireless protocol, wherein the retransmission does not temporally overlap with a transmission in accordance with the first wireless protocol; and receiving the retransmission from the external device in accordance with the second wireless protocol.