Patent ID: 8345584

Claim:
A method comprising: assigning a first client station to a first basic service set serviced by an access point in a wireless local access network (WLAN), the first basic service set configured to support a mix of contemporary WLAN standards and legacy WLAN standards; assigning a second client station to a second basic service set serviced by the access point, the second basic service set configured to support only contemporary WLAN standards and to operate at a greater data throughput than the first basic service set; concurrently transceiving first data in a first wireless channel between the access point and the first client station and second data in a second wireless channel between the access point and the second client station, wherein concurrently transceiving the first and second data comprises: processing the first data in a first medium access controller (MAC) entity of the access point and processing the second data in a second MAC entity of the access point, and transferring the first data to at least one first radio frequency (RF) chain and transferring the second data to at least one second RF chain.