Patent ID: 7797530
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for secure wireless communication between at least one user mobile client station and a network to which the apparatus is connectable, the apparatus comprising: a base unit communicatively coupled to an external network as a wireless access point, the base unit including: the one or more mobile clients communicatively coupled wirelessly with the base unit; wherein the one or more mobile clients have initial permission at the firewall to access only an authentication function of the VPN server until the VPN server communicates to the firewall a permission profile for a respective mobile client, whereupon a corresponding VPN tunnel connection is established for an authenticated mobile client to the VPN server, the VPN server loading rules into the firewall to accept communications from the authenticated mobile client only through the corresponding VPN tunnel connection; wherein communications between authenticated mobile clients are transmitted through the router and secured through both the firewall and the corresponding VPN tunnel connection established from each respective authenticated mobile client to the VPN server; wherein a given wireless communication is encrypted using the VPN tunnel connection established to the VPN server; and wherein a wireless communication received at the firewall addressed to a VPN server associated with another apparatus is allowed to pass through the firewall and the router to the VPN server of the other apparatus.