A technique is disclosed involves a station (e.g., an IEEE 802.11 station,
etc.) requesting that one or more frames be transmitted from an access
point to the station. The station might have been in power save mode
during Bluetooth operation for the purpose of causing the access point to
queue frames that are intended for the station. The station making the
request is collocated with the Bluetooth station or is, in fact, a single
station that supports two protocols (i.e., has two parts), and is able to
determine the regular timing of the Bluetooth synchronous connected
oriented (SCO) packet transmissions. The requests to the access point for
IEEE 802.11 frames are timed to cause the access point response frames to
fall between the Bluetooth messages, thus managing potential
interference.