Patent ID: 6928303

Claim:
A base station for combined wireless data and wireless telephony communication utilizing the same frequency spectrum, comprising: (a) a data transceiver for transmitting and receiving wireless data, said data transceiver associated with a contention period, the contention period comprising one or more data transmit periods, a data transmit period indicating when data may be transmitted; (b) a telephony transceiver for transmitting and receiving wireless voice signals, said telephony transceiver associated with a frame, the frame comprising one or more voice transmit periods, a voice transmit period indicating when a voice signal may be transmitted, at least a first portion of a voice transmit period concurrent with at least a second portion of a data transmit period; (c) a controller/synchronizer coupled to said data transceiver and said telephony transceiver operable to: monitor operation of said telephony transceiver to determine that said telephone transceiver is in the first portion of the voice transmit period concurrent with the second portion of the data transmit period; and control operation of said data transceiver in response thereto by allowing the data transceiver to transmit data in response to the determination; and wherein said data transceiver includes a baseband portion and an RF portion, said telephony transceiver includes a baseband portion and an RF portion, and said controller/synchronizer is coupled to said respective baseband portions.