Patent ID: 8682246

Claim:
A method for wireless communication, the method comprising: in a mobile terminal, predicting whether transmission by one of a plurality of collocated communication devices will result in a collision with transmission or reception by another of said plurality of collocated communication devices, wherein said plurality of collocated communication devices comprises a WLAN communication device, a broadband wireless technology communication device and a Bluetooth communication device; arbitrating among said plurality of collocated communication devices to grant permission to transmit, based on both of said predicting and previous data received by one or more of said plurality of collocated communication devices; wherein said arbitrating includes choosing to either grant permission to the broadband wireless technology communication device to transmit responsive to the transmission being predicted to result in a collision with reception of data by the Bluetooth communication device and responsive to the previous data received by the Bluetooth communication device being non-voice data; or deny permission to the broadband wireless technology communication device to transmit responsive to the transmission being predicted to result in a collision with reception of data by the Bluetooth communication device and responsive to the previous data received by the Bluetooth communication device being voice data.