Patent ID: 8385258
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless access point comprising: a plug for insertion into an electrical outlet; a power supply unit coupled to the plug for converting an A.C. voltage provided by the electrical outlet into a D.C. voltage; at least one wireless transceiver powered by the D.C. voltage, the at least one wireless transceiver being configured to receive a digital data stream as a pipeline of packets in a first frequency band, each packet being received during an odd time interval of a sequence of intervals, each time interval of the sequence being of equal duration, the at least one wireless transceiver being further configured to buffer each packet in a memory, and then re-transmit each packet in the first frequency band over a distributed wireless repeater network at a data rate of 11 Mbps or greater during a subsequent even time interval, the at least one wireless transceiver not transmitting during the odd time intervals; a housing, the power supply unit and the at least one wireless transceiver being enclosed within the housing, the plug being attached to the housing such that the electrical outlet physically supports the wireless access point in a position against the electrical outlet when the plug is inserted into the electrical outlet; and a processor that executes a computer program to configure frequency channels used for receiving and re-transmitting the one or more digital data packets in accordance with a combination of frequency channels that provides an optimum data throughput across the distributed wireless repeater network.