Patent ID: 7797016
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: H04J,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for mobile communication, comprising: arranging a plurality of access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air with a mobile station using a common basic service set identification (BSSID) for all the access points; receiving at one or more of the access points an uplink signal transmitted over the WLAN by the mobile station using the common BSSID; sending and receiving messages over a communication medium linking the access points in order to select one of the access points to respond to the uplink signal; transmitting a response from the selected one of the access points to the mobile station; and assigning a respective medium access control (MAC) address to each of the access points, in addition to the BSSID, for use in communicating with the mobile station and configuring the access points to emulate mobile station communications in handling uplink communications from the mobile station, so that each of the access points acknowledges uplink data messages addressed from the mobile station to the respective MAC address and ignores the uplink data messages that are not addressed to the respective MAC address.