Access to PLMN networks for non-PLMN devices, and to issues arising in interfaces in general between PLMN and non-PLMN networks

US8086855B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Flash Networks, LTD · IL

Inventors

• Eyal Katz · Cambridge, GB
• Stuart S. Jeffery · Los Altos, US
• Ilan Zorman · Palo Alto, US
• Dan Kolkowitz · Los Altos Hills, US
• Yair Karmi · Bound Brook, US
• Gil Ben-Noon · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 16, 2002
• Grant date: Dec 27, 2011
• Expiry date: Mar 11, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04W88/16
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Interface device for interfacing between a PLMN network and a non-PLMN network, the PLMN network being configured to recognize cellular base stations as nodes thereof through which to mediate connections to cellular mobile devices, the non-PLMN networks each comprising a plurality of access points for mediating connections to network compatible mobile devices, and for which the network compatible mobile devices are not required to be cellular devices. The interface device is configured as a node of the PLMN network to appear to the PLMN network as a standard cellular base station, and comprises functionality to make non-cellular devices connecting to the non-PLMN network and attempting to access the PLMN network through the non-PLMN network appear as cellular devices to the PLMN network.