Patent ID: 7035236
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for communicating a packet from a sending device coupled to a wireline subnet to a mobile station served by a base station connected to the wireline subnet in a wireless network, said base station having a wireline layer-2 MAC address, the method comprising storing a shadow address of the mobile station in the base station, the shadow address being a wireline layer 2 address distinct from both said MAC address of the base station and the MAC address of the mobile station, uniquely identifying the mobile station, having a format compatible with the link layer of the wireline subnet, and being assigned to the mobile station by the base station, and transmitting the packet from the sending device over the wireline subnet to the base station using the shadow address as the link layer destination address of a link layer frame containing the packet.