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US 11,457,358 B2Granted
Scalable WLAN gateway
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorLasse Maki
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AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorLasse Maki
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A technique for combining transmission bandwidths of several communication devices, such as mobile stations (MS1, MS2) is disclosed. A master mobile station (MS1) establishes (7-0) a WLAN access point communicating with WLAN client terminals (CT). One or more slave mo-bile stations (MS2) may detect a predefined network identifier and join the WLAN network. The master (MS1) as-signs IP addresses for the client terminals (CT) and slave mobile stations (MS2). The master also resolves DNS queries in cooperation with external DNS servers. Traffic, including internet packets (IP1-IP4), between the client terminals and various internet hosts (HO) is tunneled over multiple simultaneous transmission paths (7-6, 7-8; 7-18, 7-22) between the master (MS1) and a multiplexing/demultiplexing computer (SM). The inventive band-width combination technique is transparent to the client terminals (CT) and the internet hosts (HO).
A communication device providing network access over a wireless local area network (WLAN) for a WLAN client terminal with a second mobile station, the communication device comprising:
A method for a communication device to provide network access over a wireless local area network (WLAN) for a WLAN client terminal with a second mobile station, the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for a communication device to provide network access over a wireless local area network (WLAN) for a WLAN client terminal with a second mobile station, wherein, when the instructions are executed by the communication device, the communication device is configured to perform a method comprising:
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