Patent ID: 8014723

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a long range transceiver; a first short range transceiver; and a second short range transceiver to communicate with a host device, the apparatus operable in a host-connected mode to function as an extended memory of the host device, and wherein the second short range transceiver comprises: a first integrated circuit that includes a memory module that stores a plurality of operational instructions for implementing a plurality of protocol layers of a Bluetooth protocol, a processing module that executes the plurality of operational instructions, and a first interface module; and a second integrated circuit, wherein the second integrated circuit does not include a dedicated processor, wherein the second integrated circuit includes a second interface module that couples data to and from the first interface module, a radio frequency (RF) module that modulates a first baseband signal to produce a transmitted RF signal, and that demodulates a received RF signal to produce a second baseband signal, and a baseband module that generates the first baseband signal based on data received from the first interface module via the second interface module, and that generates data based on the second baseband signal to send to the first interface module via the second interface module.