Wireless Services Gateway
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Abstract
A system for integrating wireless service providers'"'"' core networks with Wi-Fi radios using a Wireless Services Gateway (WSG). The WSG can allow wireless device users to seamlessly connect to a network such as the internet using both cellular phone antennae as well as Wi-Fi radio antennae while still utilizing their preferred wireless service provider'"'"'s core network system of billing, authenticating and policy decision making. This system can allow for data transmission of wireless devices through Wi-Fi instead of through cellular antennae, thus increasing bandwidth and data transmission rates.
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42 Claims
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20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for use in conjunction with a wireless services gateway, the computer-readable storage medium storing a program module to authenticate wireless user equipment, wherein, when executed by the wireless services gateway, causes the wireless services gateway to perform one or more operations comprising:
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receiving, from an input node of an interface circuit of the wireless services gateway, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request associated with the wireless user equipment from an access point; assigning an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the wireless user equipment; providing, to an output node of an interface circuit of the wireless services gateway, a DHCP offer/acknowledge message with the assigned IP address for the wireless user equipment via the access point; receiving, from the input node, authentication messages associated with the wireless user equipment via the access point, the authentication messages including authentication information for an authentication server in a wireless services provider network; and forwarding, via the output node, the authentication messages associated with the authentication server. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method for authenticating a wireless user equipment, comprising:
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by a wireless services gateway; receiving, from an input node of an interface circuit of the wireless services gateway, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request associated with the wireless user equipment from an access point; assigning an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the wireless user equipment; providing, to an output node of an interface circuit of the wireless services gateway, a DHCP offer/acknowledge message with the assigned IP address for the wireless user equipment via the access point; receiving, from the input node, authentication messages associated with the wireless user equipment via the access point, the authentication messages including authentication information for an authentication server in a wireless services provider network; and forwarding, via the output node, the authentication messages associated with the authentication server. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A wireless services gateway, comprising:
an interface circuit configured to communicate with an access point and an authentication server, wherein the wireless services gateway is configured to; receive, from an input node of the interface circuit, a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) request associated with wireless user equipment from the access point; assign an Internet Protocol (IP) address to the wireless user equipment; provide, to an output node of the interface circuit, a DHCP offer/acknowledge message with the assigned IP address for the wireless user equipment via the access point; receive, from the input node, authentication messages associated with the wireless user equipment via the access point, the authentication messages including authentication information for an authentication server in a wireless services provider network; and forward, via the output node, the authentication messages associated with the authentication server. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42)
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