US 11,678,266 B2
Using a WiFi wait indicator for Bluetooth traffic persistence
Harpreet S. Narula, Austin, TX (US); and Liam B. Quinn, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Dec. 26, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/134,265.
Prior Publication US 2022/0210735 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0216 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0071 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implementable method for performing a traffic routing operation, comprising:
establishing a Bluetooth connection, the Bluetooth connection comprising a plurality of Bluetooth packets;
establishing a WiFi connection, the WiFi connection comprising a plurality of WiFi packets and an associated wait indicator;
identifying a plurality of wake sessions using the associated wait indicator;
configuring a Bluetooth channel configuration; and,
configuring a WiFi channel configuration using the associated wait indicator and the plurality of wake sessions, the configuring the WiFi channel configuration taking into account the Bluetooth channel configuration, the configuring the WiFi channel configuration interleaving the plurality of WiFi packets and the plurality of Bluetooth packets so that no packet collisions occur between the plurality of Bluetooth packets and the plurality of WiFi packets, the interleaving alternating WiFi packets from the plurality of WiFi packets with Bluetooth packets from the plurality of Bluetooth packets.