Multifunctional, building-edge wireless access point
AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.
InventorsJun Liu, Egil Gronstad
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Abstract
A wireless access point described herein includes an outside part and an inside part attached on opposite sides of a building's window. The inside part transmits and receives over an unlicensed frequency to one or more devices in the building. The outside part transmits and receives over a radio frequency of a base station of a telecommunications network, transcodes between the radio frequency and the unlicensed frequency, and secures transmissions to the base station across multiple layers of a network stack.
Claims20
A wireless access point, comprising:
- a first part disposed outside of a building, the first part transmitting to and receiving from a base station of a telecommunications network over a radio frequency of the base station and transcoding between a signal associated with the radio frequency and a signal associated with an unlicensed frequency;
- a second part disposed inside of the building, on a opposite side of a window of the building from the first part, the second part transmitting to and receiving from one or more devices disposed within the building over the unlicensed frequency and receiving a charge from a power component coupled to the second part;
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- a connection mechanism for transmitting and receiving data between the first part and the second part and for transmitting the charge from the second part to the first part,
- wherein the transmitting from the first part to the base station is secured across multiple layers of a network stack.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by an inside part of a wireless access point, a transmission from a device over an unlicensed frequency, wherein both the inside part and the device are disposed inside a building and the inside part is fixed to a window of the building;
- communicating, between the inside part of the wireless access point and an outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission, wherein the outside part is fixed to the window of the building on an opposite side from the inside part and is disposed outside of the building;
- transcoding, by the outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission from the unlicensed frequency to a radio frequency of a base station of a telecommunications network;
- securing, by the outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission across multiple layers of a network stack;
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- sending, by the outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission to the base station over the radio frequency of the base station.
One or more non-transitory computer storage media having programming instructions stored thereon that, when executed by processor(s) of a wireless access point, cause the wireless access point to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by an inside part of the wireless access point, a transmission from a device over an unlicensed frequency, wherein both the inside part and the device are disposed inside a building and the inside part is fixed to a window of the building;
- communicating, between the inside part of the wireless access point and an outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission, wherein the outside part is fixed to the window of the building on an opposite side from the inside part and is disposed outside of the building;
- transcoding, by the outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission from the unlicensed frequency to a radio frequency of a base station of a telecommunications network;
- securing, by the outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission across multiple layers of a network stack;
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- sending, by the outside part of the wireless access point, the transmission to the base station over the radio frequency of the base station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.