Patent ID: 8340714

Claim:
A method of operating a computing device with a configurable antenna and a configurable radio, the method comprising: establishing a network connection on behalf of an application; based on the first wireless technology specification, configuring the radio to operate according to a first wireless technology using a frequency spectrum having a nominal frequency and a bandwidth around the nominal frequency; based on the first wireless technology specification, configuring the antenna to selectively transmit and/or receive signals having the nominal frequency and the bandwidth; reconfiguring the radio and the antenna to operate according to a second wireless technology; and passing first and second signals of the network connection via the antenna configured according to the first and second wireless technologies, respectively, wherein, during the reconfiguring of the antenna and the passing of the first and second signals of the network connection via the antenna configured according to the first and second wireless technologies, respectively, the network connection is maintained and connection information corresponding to the network connection is unchanged.