Patent ID: 8204075

Claim:
A radio frequency (RF) bus controller for use in a device, the RF bus controller comprises: an interface module; and a processing module, wherein the interface module receives an RF bus access request for an inter-chip intra-device RF communication; the interface module forwards a representation of the RF bus access request to the processing module; the processing module determines whether to grant the RF bus access request using intra-device RF bus resources or inter-device RF bus resources; when the inter-device RF bus resources are to be used, the processing module determines desired inter-device RF bus resources of another device; the processing module generates a request for access to the desired inter-device RF bus resources; the interface module transmits a representation of the request for access to the desired inter-device RF bus resources to an RF bus controller of the other device; and when access to the desired inter-device RF bus resources is granted, the processing module establishes an RF communication link to support the inter-chip intra-device RF communication.