Patent ID: 8296453
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G06F,G06T,H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless peripheral system, comprising: a WiFi wireless peripheral device that utilizes a WiFi RF channel to communicate with a host computing system and that does not need to be authenticated in order to communicate on said WiFi RF channel; and a host computing system that is configured as an infrastructure mode WiFi client and that utilizes a single WiFi network controller both for operating as said infrastructure mode WiFi client on a wireless WiFi network and for connecting over said WiFi RF channel to said WiFi wireless peripheral device; and wherein said host computing system operates in infrastructure mode to use said WiFi RF channel to communicate and maintain connectivity with said wireless WiFi network and operates neither in infrastructure mode nor in standard ad hoc mode to use said WiFi RF channel to communicate with said WiFi wireless peripheral device.