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Method and apparatus for connecting a wireless LAN to a wired LAN

US5901362A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 24, 1995
Grant dateMay 4, 1999
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Expiry dateJul 24, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W88/04
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An internetworking node for providing internetworking services for mobile wireless nodes. Each mobile wireless node is associated with at the most one internetworking node. Each mobile wireless node selects which internetworking node it will associate with. The internetworking node will then act for all wireless nodes associated to it in relaying messages between wireless nodes or between a wired Local Area Network (LAN) and the wireless nodes.

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