Patent ID: 8909288

Claim:
A method comprising: at a multimode communication device, at a control circuit of the multimode communication device, determining respective communication needs of two or more respective communication modules of a plurality of communication modules of the multimode communication device; at the control circuit, using the respective communication needs, determining respective control information necessary to configure the two or more respective communication modules; at the control circuit, based on the determined respective communication needs of the two or more respective communication modules, allocating communication resources of a common data bus among the two or more respective communication modules; communicating the respective control information from the control circuit to the two or more respective communication modules of the plurality of communication modules over the common data bus in accordance with the allocated communication resources of the common data bus to configure operation of the two or more respective communication modules; and using the communicated control information, configuring operation of each of the two or more respective communication modules for radio communication in accordance with a respective communication mode with a respective remote radio of a plurality of remote radios.