US 2006/0221987 A1Published application

LAN and WWAN gateway

AssigneeJunxion Inc.

InventorPeter Polson

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Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for transmitting data received from one or more devices of a local area network to a first gateway device of a first wireless wide area network, and selectively transmitting data received from the first gateway device of the first wireless wide area network to the one or more devices of the local area network, if a first wireless wide area networking interface is removably received by a socket of the gateway, the socket capable of removably receiving a selected one of the first and a second wireless wide area networking interface, and transmitting data received from the one or more devices of the local area network to a second gateway device of a second wireless wide area network, and selectively transmitting data received from the second gateway device of the second wireless wide area network to the one or more devices of the local area network, if the second wireless wide area networking interface is removably received by the socket, are described herein.

Claims35

Dependent claims

A gateway comprising:

a local networking interface adapted to receive data from, and transmit data to one or more devices of a local area network;
a socket adapted to removably receive a selected one of a first and a second wireless wide area networking interface adapted to receive data from, and transmit data to a first and a second gateway device of a first and a second wireless wide area network respectively;
and
a routing engine coupled to the local networking interface and the socket, and adapted to transmit data received from the one or more devices of the local area network to the first gateway device of the first wireless wide area network, and selectively transmit data received from the first gateway device of the first wireless wide area network to the one or more devices of the local area network, if the first wireless wide area networking interface is the selected one removably received by the socket, and to transmit data received from the one or more devices of the local area network to the second gateway device of the second wireless wide area network, and selectively transmit data received from the second gateway device of the second wireless wide area network to the one or more devices of the local area network, if the second wireless wide area networking interface is the selected one removably received by the socket.

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An article of manufacture comprising:

a storage medium having a plurality of programming instructions stored therein, the plurality of programming instructions adapted to program a gateway to enable the gateway to
transmit data received from one or more devices of a local area network to a first gateway device of a first wireless wide area network, and selectively transmit data received from the first gateway device of the first wireless wide area network to the one or more devices of the local area network, if a first wireless wide area networking interface is removably received by a socket of the gateway, the socket capable of removably receiving a selected one of the first and a second wireless wide area networking interface, and
transmit data received from the one or more devices of the local area network to a second gateway device of a second wireless wide area network, and selectively transmit data received from the second gateway device of the second wireless wide area network to the one or more devices of the local area network, if the second wireless wide area networking interface is removably received by the socket.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/392,454Filed 29 Mar 2006
Priority: 30 Mar 2005
Published: 5 Oct 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 12/462
LAN interconnection over a backbone network, e.g. Internet, Frame Relay: lAN interconnection over a bridge based backbone
H04W 88/16
Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices: gateway arrangements
H04W 40/00
Communication routing or communication path finding
H04W 84/04
Hierarchically pre-organised networks, e.g. paging networks, cellular networks, WLAN [Wireless Local Area Network] or WLL [Wireless Local Loop]:…