Patent ID: 7711373

Claim:
A device, comprising: a master control system configured to control the general operation of the device; a plurality of radio modems; and a multiradio control system configured to concurrently manage the plurality of radio modems, the multiradio control system including: a multiradio controller, coupled to at least the master control system, configured to receive delay tolerant information from the master control system including radio modem configuration information that does not change during a virtual radio modem connection, and to control operation of the plurality of radio modems; a plurality of radio modem interface modules, coupled to each of the plurality of radio modems and the multiradio controller, configured to relay delay sensitive information from the plurality of radio modems for delivery to the multiradio controller through a direct physical interface dedicated for providing fast connection for communicating delay sensitive information, and to relay commands received through the direct physical interface from the multiradio controller to the radio modems; wherein the delay sensitive information includes at least information related to radio modem clock synchronization and radio modem activity control containing at least one or more allowed/disallowed communication periods for a radio modem.