A method and apparatus are disclosed for negotiating and managing one or more personalities in a wireless communications system. Factor graph representations of the first entities and a plurality of second entities are stored. The lock coupler is rotatably mounted in the lock core chamber and includes a rotatable outer disk coupler and two lock coupling arms. The method next includes processing the cipher data such that the cipher data includes the signaling information, and mapping the cipher data including the signaling information into a traffic unit for transmission over the data path.