System, method and apparatus for providing communications that conform to a cellular communication standard and a non-cellular communication standard

A method for providing communications that conform to a cellular communication standard and a non-cellular communication standard comprising the steps of:

• providing a programmable cellular radio front end comprising a digital radio frequency processor configured to support the cellular communication standard;
• providing a programmable baseband processor connected to the digital radio frequency processor that selectively reconfigures the cellular configured digital radio frequency processor to support the non-cellular communication standard or the cellular communication standard;
• performing communications conforming to the cellular communication standard by configuring the cellular configured digital radio frequency processor to support the non-cellular communication standard by (a) enabling one or more cellular communication standard specific functions, and modifying one or more operating parameters to conform to the cellular communication standard, (b) processing input data in accordance with the cellular communication standard and providing the processed input data to the digital radio frequency processor for transmission, and (c) receiving output data from the digital radio frequency processor and processing the received output data to obtain transmitted data;
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• performing communications conforming to the non-cellular communication standard by configuring the cellular configured digital radio frequency processor to support the non-cellular communication standard by (a) by reconfiguring the cellular configured digital radio frequency processor to support the non-cellular communication standard by bypassing the cellular communication standard specific functions, and modifying the operating parameters to conform to the non-cellular communication standard, (b) processing input data in accordance with the non-cellular communication standard and providing the processed input data to the digital radio frequency processor for transmission, and (c) receiving output data from the digital radio frequency processor and processing the received output data to obtain transmitted data transceiver.

A system comprising:

• a cellular communications network supporting a cellular communication standard;
• a non-cellular communications network supporting a non-cellular communication standard;
• two or more mobile stations that can communicate with both the cellular communications network and the non-cellular communications network;
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• wherein each mobile station comprises an antenna, a programmable cellular radio front end comprising a digital radio frequency processor configured to support a cellular communication standard, and a programmable baseband processor connected to the digital radio frequency processor that (a) selectively reconfigures the cellular configured digital ii radio frequency processor to communicate with the non-cellular communications network by bypassing one or more cellular communication standard specific function, and modifying one or more operating parameters to conform to the non-cellular communication standard, (b) processes input data in accordance with the non-cellular communication standard and provides the processed input data to the digital radio frequency processor for transmission, and (c) receives output data from the digital radio frequency processor and processes the received output data to obtain transmitted data.