US 6,721,306 B1 · Public wireless/cordless internet gateway

Abstract

A localized wireless gateway system provides wireless telephone communication and provides access to a public packet data network, such as the Internet, for at least voice telephone type communications. The wireless gateway system includes a number of base stations, essentially built around computers with digital transceiver circuitry, which provide an air interface to a number of digital terminal devices. The terminal devices communicate audio information in a standard digitized and compressed data format. The base stations provide two-way communications of the audio data over a public packet switched data network, either directly or via a local area network and a server coupled to the public data network. A server and local area network provide local voice and data communications as well as voice and data communication access to the public packet data network.

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A localized wireless gateway system, comprising:

a plurality of base station transceivers for providing two-way wireless voice frequency communication signals in a standard compressed digital data format to and from wireless telephone terminals within a local area, each of said base station transceivers comprising a client computer;
a local area data network directly coupled to each of the client computers;
and
a server computer including an interface to the local area data network and an interface to a public packet data network, for processing the standard compressed digital data format signals for two-way packet communication thereof via the public packet data network and for signaling through the public packet data network to establish two-way voice communication sessions for the wireless telephone terminals through the public packet data network.

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A telecommunication system comprising:

a system of interlinked data networks using TCP/IP protocol;
a plurality of terminal devices coupled for data communication via the system of interlinked networks, at least one of the terminal devices having two-way audio communication capabilities;
and
a localized wireless gateway system, comprising:
a plurality of base station transceivers for providing two-way wireless voice frequency communication signals in a standard compressed digital data format to and from wireless telephone terminals within a local area, each of said base station transceivers comprising (a) a client computer including a central processing unit, (b) a digital modulator and a digital demodulator controlled by the central processing unit for wireless communication of audio signals in the standard compressed digital data format over a predetermined air interface with the wireless telephone terminals, and (c) a local area data network interface to a data network for connection to a server,
a local area data network directly interconnecting the local network interfaces of the base station transceivers for carrying data packets in a predefined packet data protocol, and
a public network interface comprising a server computer including an interface to the local area data network and an interface to the system of interlinked data networks, for processing the audio signals in the standard compressed digital data format for two-way packet communication thereof via the system of interlinked data networks and for signaling through the system of interlinked data networks to establish two-way voice communication sessions through the system of interlinked data networks.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Public wireless/cordless internet gateway

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