Mixed mode wireless local area network terminal
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1. A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal operative in two mutually exclusive modes:
- an Infrastructure mode and an Independent mode, comprising;
a first state-machine controlling the WLAN terminal in the Infrastructure mode;
a second state-machine controlling the WLAN terminal in the Independent mode;
a mixed mode means for running the first and second state-machines in a mixed mode, wherein the WLAN terminal is capable of transferring data information in the infrastructure and independent modes simultaneously in said mixed mode.
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Abstract
A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) station/terminal operates in normally mutually exclusive infrastructure and independent modes. A mixed mode is added by means of a mixed mode means for running the WLAN terminal in the infrastructure and independent modes simultaneously.
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1. A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal operative in two mutually exclusive modes:
- an Infrastructure mode and an Independent mode, comprising;
a first state-machine controlling the WLAN terminal in the Infrastructure mode;
a second state-machine controlling the WLAN terminal in the Independent mode;
a mixed mode means for running the first and second state-machines in a mixed mode, wherein the WLAN terminal is capable of transferring data information in the infrastructure and independent modes simultaneously in said mixed mode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- an Infrastructure mode and an Independent mode, comprising;
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7. A method for operating a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal in different modes, including mutually exclusive infrastructure and independent modes, comprising:
- setting the WLAN terminal in a mixed mode by means of a mixed mode means for running the WLAN terminal in the infrastructure and independent modes simultaneously.
- View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium and a software code means loadable into an internal memory storage of a data processing unit within a controller of a WLAN terminal;
- said software code means operative, when loaded in said data processing unit, to allow the WLAN terminal to operate in a mixed mode wherein the WLAN terminal is operative to transfer data information in mutually exclusive infrastructure and independent modes simultaneously.
- View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. A computer program comprising software code means stored on a computer usable medium, from which the software code means is readable by a computer means, said software code means operative, when loaded in a data processing unit within a controller of a WLAN terminal, to allow the WLAN terminal to operate in a mixed mode wherein the WLAN terminal is operative to transfer data information in mutually exclusive infrastructure and independent modes simultaneously
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