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US 7,689,166 B2Granted
System and method for extension of wireless footprint
AssigneeEmbarq Holdings Company, LLC
InventorsMichael K. Bugenhagen, Carl M. Coppage
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Abstract
A system and method for communicating through a host repeater. Data is received from a remote repeater communicating with a wireless device. The host repeater registers as the wireless device on a wireless network. The data is reformatted for transmission between the wireless devices and the wireless network.
Claims15
A method for communicating through a host repeater, said method comprising:
- receiving data from a remote repeater communicating with a wireless device;
- registering the host repeater as the wireless device on a wireless network;
- and
- reformatting the data for transmission between the wireless device and the wireless network;
- wherein the reformatting step further comprises:
- encapsulating the data into packets;
- and modifying header information, the header information being operable to be used to route the packets;
- comprising, encoding the data to form packets, wherein the packets are communicated across the Internet between the remote repeater and the host repeater;
- the wireless network is any of a wireless local area network (LAN), a cellular telephony network, and a wireless wide area network WAN).
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A system for communicating through a remote repeater, said system comprising:
- a remote repeater operable to communicate with a client over a fit wireless network, the remote repeater emulating a wireless access point configured to communicate with the client, wherein the remote repeater is operable to convert data received from the client from a first format to a second format;
- and
- a host repeater operable to communicate with the remote repeater over a wired network, communicate with a cellular network over a second wireless network, receive the packets from the remote repeater, and convert the data from the second format to the first format, wherein the host repeater is operable to emulate the client and transmit the data to the cellular network wherein the reformatting step further comprises:
- encapsulating the data into packets;
- and
- modifying header information, the header information being operable to be used to route the packets.
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A method for communicating through a host repeater, said method comprising:
- receiving a session request from a remote repeater, wherein the remote repeater communicates with a wireless device through a first wireless network;
- registering the host repeater as the wireless device on a second wireless network using registration information associated with the wireless device;
- and
- communicating data from the host repeater to the remote repeater over a wired network further comprising:
- converting data from a first format to a second format, the converted data being communicated from the host repeater over the second wireless network to the wireless device and the home network;
- wherein the converting step further comprises:
- unencapsulating the data from packets compatible with an Internet protocol for sending the data across the wired network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.