MOBILE ROUTER DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method comprising the steps of:
- establishing a plurality of network connections between a mobile router and a first wireless network wherein the first wireless network provides access to a WAN;
hosting one or more client devices on a second local area network operating on the mobile router;
receiving network traffic from the client devices of the second local area network within the mobile router;
determining which network traffic received from the second local area network to route to the first wireless network;
aggregating the network traffic being routed to the first wireless network together; and
,balancing the aggregated network over the plurality of network connections with the first wireless network.
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Abstract
A wireless mobile router (140) includes wireless network interfaces (202) and (218) attached to a network controller (142). The wireless network interface (202) communicates with a cellular network (110) to access cellular network services. The wireless network interface (218) and the network controller (142) comprise a WLAN (170) or PAN (180) and a network router hosting a plurality of client devices. Each client device may access a wide area network, WAN over the cellular network. The wireless mobile router (140) is configured to exchange various cellular network signals with various WLAN and PAN networks. The wireless mobile router (140) is particularly suitable for use in a vehicle or at locations where WAN access is not readily available.
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17 Claims
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1. A method comprising the steps of:
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establishing a plurality of network connections between a mobile router and a first wireless network wherein the first wireless network provides access to a WAN; hosting one or more client devices on a second local area network operating on the mobile router; receiving network traffic from the client devices of the second local area network within the mobile router; determining which network traffic received from the second local area network to route to the first wireless network; aggregating the network traffic being routed to the first wireless network together; and
,balancing the aggregated network over the plurality of network connections with the first wireless network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A mobile wireless router comprising:
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a network controller comprising a CPU and an associated memory; a plurality of cellular network interface devices in communication with the CPU; a second wireless network interface device in communication with the CPU, program steps operating on the mobile wireless router for establishing at least two of the plurality of cellular network interface devices as client device of a cellular network that provides access to a WAN; program steps operating on the wireless network router for hosting client devices on a local area network operating over the second wireless network interface device; programs steps operating on the wireless network router for aggregating network traffic received from the hosted client devices having destination IP addresses reachable over the WAN together for routing to the first wireless network; and
,program step operating on the wireless router for balancing the aggregated network traffic over two or more of the plurality of cellular network interface devices. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method comprising the steps of:
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operating a mobile router in a moving vehicle wherein the mobile router comprises a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a memory device associated with the CPU, and a plurality of network interface devices in communication with the CPU wherein the plurality of network interface devices includes a plurality of cellular network interface device and one or more non-cellular network interface devices; establishing each of the cellular network interface devices as a client on a cellular network that provides access to a wide area network (WAN); exchanging network traffic between non-cellular network devices moving with the vehicle and the CPU over the one or more non-cellular network interface devices; determining which network traffic received over the one or more non-cellular network interface devices has a destination IP address reachable over the WAN; aggregating the network traffic having a destination IP address reachable over the WAN together; and
,routing the network traffic having a destination IP address reachable over the WAN to the cellular network by balancing the aggregated network traffic over the plurality of cellular network interface devices established as a client on the cellular network. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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