Method of wirelessly accessing network

• US 7,010,310 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2003
• Issued: 03/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Yu-Sheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): DOAN, KIET M
• Application Number:
  US10/627,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20050026632A1
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 455/459, 455/433, 455/277.1, 455/11.1, 370/401, 370/338, 370/329, 370/328, 370/311, 340/10.42, 709/220, 600/300, 607/60
• US Class Current: 455/459
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

The present invention is to provide a method of wirelessly accessing network enabling a user to use his/her cellular phone to access the Internet in any place any time by coupling an 802.11 interface of the cellular phone to a computer also having an 802.11 interface. Thus, data can be transmitted securely between the cellular phone and the internet in faster rate by taking advantage of the 802.11 interface of high data transfer rate and frequency jumping technique. Further, locations of both the cellular phone and the computer can be adjusted as needed. In other words, neither the cellular phone nor the computer is needed to fix at the same place.

Claims

1. A method of wirelessly accessing a network implemented in a mobile communication device capable of accessing the Internet and a host, the mobile communication device having an interface of high data transfer rate and the host having an interface of high data transfer rate respectively, the method comprising the steps of:

in response to detecting a connection between the interface of the host and the interface of the mobile communication device by an operating system of the host, the operating system of the host receiving a data setting from the mobile communication device;

activating a driver of the host;

transmitting a signal of connecting the mobile communication device and a network together to the mobile communication device; and

in response to receiving the connection signal by the mobile communication device, activating a driver of the mobile communication device and at the same time, for establishing the connection to the network,

wherein the interface is an 802.11 interface disposed in the mobile communication device, the mobile communication device further comprising;

an operating system for receiving the signal from the host and for controlling;

a driver for activating the mobile communication device, finishing the data setting, and for establishing the connection to the network; and

a data setting unit for setting data; and

the host, in addition to the 802.11 interface, further comprising;

an operating system for detecting the connection between the interfaces; and

a driver for activating the host and for transmitting the connection signal to the mobile communication device, and

wherein a process of wirelessly accessing the network by the host via the mobile communication device comprises the steps of;

causing the operating system of the host to detect and to determine whether a connection between the 802.11 interface of the host and the 802.11 interface of the mobile communication device has been established;

causing the host to request the mobile communication device to send data settings from the data setting unit to the 802.11 interface of the host for receiving via the 802.11 interface of the mobile communication device if the determination is positive;

activating the driver for the host;

transmitting the signal of connecting the mobile communication device and the network together to the mobile communication device via the 802.11 interface of the host and the 802.11 interface of the mobile communication device; and

in response to receiving the signal of connecting the mobile communication device and the network together from the host by the mobile communication device, activating the driver of the mobile communication device for finishing the setting of the mobile communication device and at the same time, for establishing the connection to the network.