Patent ID: 9369564
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A portable computing device for wireless communications, comprising: a first network interface to communicate with a public wireless wide area network (WWAN); a second network interface to communicate with a private wireless local area network (WLAN); a processor and software instructions that when executed by the processor defining a gateway protocol, said gateway protocol establishing said portable computing device as an access point within said private WLAN contemporaneous with a wireless presence of said portable computing device on said public WWAN, and using permitted device identifiers to limit access to the private WLAN, wherein to limit access comprises to compare the permitted device identifiers to a device identifier of a device requesting to join the private WLAN; and a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server; wherein said gateway protocol routes communication packets received from devices in said private WLAN through said public WWAN and routes packets received from said public WWAN to devices in said private WLAN.