Patent ID: 9265088
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method performed on a computing device that includes at least one processor, memory, and a network interface card (“NIC”), the method comprising: implementing, by the computing device, wireless networking functionality of a station or of an access point that are each configured to interact with the NIC; and setting, by the computing device, a mode of operation of the NIC that is selected from a group of modes of operation that includes a station only mode, an access point only mode, and a station and access point mode, where the NIC's station only mode supports the wireless networking functionality of the station but not the access point, where the NIC's access point only mode supports the wireless networking functionality of the access point but not the station, where the NIC's station and access point mode supports the wireless networking functionality of the station and the access point, and where the station or the access point, as opposed to the NIC, is configured to provide functionality comprising: authentication services; wired equivalent privacy (“WEP”) functionality; packet fragmentation functionality; packet defragmentation functionality; or association and re-association functionality.