Method for supporting a personal wireless network

• US 8,386,557 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2001
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Novatel Wireless, Inc. (Inseego Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Enfora Incorporated (Inseego Corp.)
• Inventors: Fillebrown, Lisa A., Kautz, Russell D., Glover, Kenneth Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Zarni
• Application Number:
  US09/775,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20040193675A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,408 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 709/246, 709/203, 709/236, 709/202, 709/250, 370/401
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4131 home appliance, e.g. lighting, air conditioning system, metering devices home automation data switching networks exchanging configuration information on appliance services H04L12/2807
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The invention is a method for processing a packet in a wireless network. The method includes the acts of receiving a data packet having data therein, and associating the data with a software application. In addition, the method processes information in a wireless network by receiving a user input at a wireless client, converting information indicative of the user input into data transferable as at least one data packet, and transmitting the data packet via a wireless protocol. The method may also update a wireless client display by receiving a video packet via a wireless protocol, and changing at least one pixel to implement the display information received in the video packet.

Claims

1. A method of processing a packet in a wireless network, comprising:

receiving a data packet having data therein at a first device capable of wirelessly communicating with a second device;

associating the data with a one of a plurality of network enabled software applications executing on the first device and generating display information in response to processing by the one of the plurality of network enabled software applications for use by the second device in producing a display on the second device;

the first and second devices performing wireless transmissions to one another through a wireless router, wherein performing wireless transmissions to one another through the wireless router further comprises,

providing a first wireless communication link between the first device and the wireless router in accordance with a first wireless protocol, and

providing a second wireless communication link between the wireless router and the second device in accordance with a second wireless protocol;

receiving a wireless transmission at the wireless router transmitted from the first device;

detecting that the received wireless transmission is adequately strong to reach the second device; and

not amplifying the received wireless transmission before transmitting to the second device.