Mobile WLAN gateway
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorLasse Maki
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Abstract
One example mobile station includes a transceiver; a wireless local area network (WLAN) circuit; at least one processor; and one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to cause the mobile station to: establish and maintain a broadband connection with a mobile communication network in response to a successful authentication of the mobile station; activate the WLAN circuit as a WLAN base station capable of communicating with at least one WLAN terminal over a WLAN network; tunnel internet traffic between the at least one WLAN terminal and an internet host over the broadband connection; and deactivate the WLAN circuit in response to a detected absence of WLAN terminal activity for a period of time.
Claims20
A mobile station, comprising:
- a transceiver;
- a wireless local area network (WLAN) circuit;
- at least one processor;
- and
- one or more memories coupled to the at least one processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to cause the mobile station to:
- establish and maintain, by using the transceiver, a broadband connection with a mobile communication network in response to a successful authentication of the mobile station;
- activate the WLAN circuit as a WLAN base station capable of communicating with at least one WLAN terminal over a WLAN network;
- assign a port number for at least one protocol supported by a gateway application;
- tunnel internet traffic between the at least one WLAN terminal and an internet host over the broadband connection;
- and
- deactivate the WLAN circuit in response to a detected absence of WLAN terminal activity for a period of time.
A mobile station, comprising:
- a wireless local area network (WLAN) circuit;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- establish and maintain a broadband connection with a mobile communication network in response to a successful authentication of the mobile station;
- activate the WLAN circuit as a WLAN base station capable of communicating with at least one WLAN terminal over a WLAN network;
- assign a port number for at least one protocol supported by a gateway application;
- tunnel internet traffic between the at least one WLAN terminal and an internet host over the broadband connection;
- and
- deactivate the WLAN circuit in response to a detected absence of WLAN terminal activity for a period of time.
A chip, comprising:
- at least one processor configured to execute instructions to:
- establish and maintain a broadband connection with a mobile communication network in response to a successful authentication of a mobile station comprising a wireless local area network (WLAN) circuit;
- activate the WLAN circuit as a WLAN base station capable of communicating with at least one WLAN terminal over a WLAN network;
- assign a port number for at least one protocol supported by a gateway application;
- tunnel internet traffic between the at least one WLAN terminal and an internet host over the broadband connection;
- and
- deactivate the WLAN circuit in response to a detected absence of WLAN terminal activity for a period of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.