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US 8,009,613 B1Granted
Systems and method of coupling a wireless macro network to a wireless adapter
AssigneeNextel Communications Inc.
InventorsDon Gunasekara, Sunil Prasad
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Abstract
Systems and methods of coupling a wireless network to one or more wireless adapters by way of powerlines are provided. A communication device can be employed to couple a wireless macro network to one or more wireless adapters. The communication device can provide quality of service and encryption on a per wireless adapter basis. The communication device can also identify frequencies that experience interference, and are suppressed by a harmonic suppressor, and avoid these frequencies when transmitting communications over the powerlines.
Claims19
A communication device, comprising:
- a wireless base station;
- a broadband over powerline modem, coupled to the wireless base station and to a powerline, wherein the broadband over powerline modem is coupled to a plurality of wireless adapters via the powerline;
- and
- logic, coupled to the broadband over powerline modem, that controls quality of service of communications between the wireless base station and a wireless adapter,
- wherein the powerline is a three-phase powerline, and the broadband over powerline modem is coupled to at least two wireless adapters of the plurality of wireless adapters by different phases of the powerline.
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A method, comprising the acts of:
- receiving communications from a wireless macro network;
- providing the communications to a broadband over powerline modem;
- determining a wireless adapter of a plurality of wireless adapters coupled to the broadband over powerline modem that is to receive the communications;
- determining a quality of service associated with the wireless adapter of the plurality of wireless adapters;
- and
- forwarding the communications to the wireless adapter of the plurality of wireless adapters via a powerline in accordance with the determined quality of service,
- wherein the powerline is a three-phase powerline, and the broadband over powerline modem is coupled to at least two wireless adapters of the plurality of wireless adapters by different phases of the powerline.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.