Wireless ''Whooper'' system for consolidating wireless communication access points and client stations and providing differentiated wireless services
First Claim
1. A Wireless Whooper system for use in wireless networks, comprising:
- a plurality of wireless client stations arranged to transmit and receive wireless streams of information;
one or more wireless Access Points (APs) arranged to provide wireless links with the wireless client stations, each supporting a group of wireless client stations; and
a supervisory processing unit (SPU) arranged to monitor and dynamically switch between available wireless APs, forward and transmit streams of information through the wireless networks.
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Abstract
A Wireless Whooper system for use in wireless networks is provided with a collection of wireless client stations arranged to transmit and receive wireless streams of information, and wireless Access Points (APs) arranged to wirelessly link with the wireless client stations, each supporting a group of wireless client stations; and a supervisory processing unit (SPU) arranged to monitor and dynamically switch between available wireless APs, forward and transmit streams of information through the wireless networks. Such a supervisory processing unit (SPU) can be installed as a separate control device or integrated within each wireless AP to handle the dynamic switching and routing of streams of information between available wireless APs within the system. This way the Wireless Whooper system can advantageously provide high quality differentiated wireless services and capabilities to dynamically change a single wireless traffic stream between any single source and destination to multiple streams via other existing wireless elements (e.g., wireless Access Points “APs” and client stations).
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20 Claims
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1. A Wireless Whooper system for use in wireless networks, comprising:
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a plurality of wireless client stations arranged to transmit and receive wireless streams of information;
one or more wireless Access Points (APs) arranged to provide wireless links with the wireless client stations, each supporting a group of wireless client stations; and
a supervisory processing unit (SPU) arranged to monitor and dynamically switch between available wireless APs, forward and transmit streams of information through the wireless networks. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A Wireless Whooper system for use in wireless networks, comprising:
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one or more wireless Access Points (APs) arranged in communication with a distribution system, each wireless AP supporting a group of wireless client stations to transmit and receive wireless streams of information; and
a supervisory processing unit (SPU) provided in each wireless AP, to monitor and differentiate different types of wireless streams of information, to dynamically switch and forward differentiated streams of information between available wireless APs in the wireless networks. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a wireless Access Point (AP) in a Wireless Whooper system having a collection of wireless APs and wireless client stations, cause the wireless AP to perform the steps of:
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receiving an incoming wireless stream of information from different wireless networks;
differentiating the incoming wireless stream of information as a traffic type including voice, video, data and email; and
routing a differentiated traffic based on different categories that include (1) predefined priorities, and (2) an elapse time in an internal queue which determines the priority of wireless streams and the order of forwarding the wireless streams of information. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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