Patent ID: 6873608

Claim:
A cellular communication system, comprising: antenna apparatus for transmitting a transmit wireless signal, said antenna apparatus for receiving a receive wireless signal; radio frequency (RF) means for receiving and performing RF receive processing on said receive wireless signal to generate a receive signal, said RF means for performing RF transmit processing on a transmit signal and generating said transmit wireless signal therefrom; host processing means adapted to communicate data, status and control information with said RF means via a bus, said host processing means comprising a first host based software application and a host based modem application, said host based modem application performing the method comprising the steps of: receiving said receive signal generated by said RF module over said bus and generating receive data in response thereto for input to said software application; and receiving data output by said first software application and generating said transmit signal in response thereto, sending said transmit signal to said RF module over said bus, wherein said host processing means is capable of concurrently running a second host based software application.