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US 7,689,210 B1Granted
Plug-n-playable wireless communication system
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorHarry Bims
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for communicating between devices is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises detecting, at a switch, a presence of a first repeater coupled to the switch at a location, and automatically configuring the first repeater to enable the first repeater to communicate with a mobile station and the switch without using information resulting from a site survey of the location.
Claims27
A method for automatically establishing a wireless coverage cell using a repeater, comprising:
- detecting, at a switch, a notification signal from a previously undetected first repeater coupled to the switch at a location, the previously undetected first repeater having been coupled to the switch via an Ethernet connection;
- transmitting software from the switch to the previously undetected first repeater to configure the previously undetected first repeater to operate and communicate with the switch and one or more mobile stations;
- receiving at the switch a periodic communication signal from the previously undetected first repeater that establishes communication between the previously undetected first repeater and the switch;
- in response to the periodic communication signal, automatically configuring the previously undetected first repeater to enable the previously undetected first repeater to wirelessly communicate with a mobile station and the switch without using information resulting from a site survey of the location;
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- once the previously undetected first repeater has been configured, optionally associating the mobile station with the previously undetected first repeater without knowledge of a user of the mobile station,
- wherein a new wireless coverage cell is automatically established when the previously undetected first repeater is coupled to the switch.
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An apparatus for automatically establishing a wireless coverage cell using a repeater, comprising:
- means for detecting, at a switch, a notification signal from a previously undetected first repeater coupled to the switch at a location, the previously undetected first repeater having been coupled to the switch via an Ethernet connection;
- means for transmitting software from the switch to the previously undetected first repeater to configure the previously undetected first repeater to operate and communicate with the switch and one or more mobile stations;
- means for receiving at the switch a periodic communication signal from the previously undetected first repeater that establishes communication between the previously undetected first repeater and the switch;
- in response to the periodic communication signal, means for automatically configuring the previously undetected first repeater to enable the previously undetected first repeater to wirelessly communicate with a mobile station and the switch without using information resulting from a site survey of the location;
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- means for optionally associating the mobile station with the previously undetected first repeater without knowledge of a user of the mobile station,
- wherein a new wireless coverage cell is automatically established when the previously undetected first repeater is coupled to the switch.
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A machine-readable medium having executable code to cause a machine to perform a method for automatically establishing a wireless coverage cell using a repeater, the method comprising:
- detecting, at a switch, a notification signal from a previously undetected first repeater coupled to the switch at a location, the previously undetected first repeater having been coupled to the switch via an Ethernet connection;
- uploading software from the switch to the previously undetected first repeater to enable the previously undetected first repeater to operate and communicate with the switch and one or more mobile stations;
- receiving a periodic communication signal from the previously undetected first repeater that establishes a communication connection between the previously undetected first repeater and the switch;
- in response to the periodic communication signal, automatically configuring the previously undetected first repeater to enable the previously undetected first repeater to wirelessly communicate with the one or more mobile stations and the switch without using information resulting from a site survey of the location;
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- optionally associating the mobile station with the previously undetected first repeater without knowledge of a user of the mobile station,
- wherein a new wireless coverage cell is established when the previously undetected first repeater is coupled to the switch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.