Patent ID: 9143359
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A phone docking station, comprising: a docking port, a first integral component of the phone docking station, configured to physically dock with a mobile phone, wherein the docking port includes an input/output port; and a Network Address and Port Translation (NAPT) or Network Address Translation (NAT) system, a second integral component of the phone docking station, configured to implement a forwarding table that forwards traffic from an external network through the input/output port to the mobile phone and from the mobile phone through the input/output port to the external network a near field communication (NFC) reader, a third integral component of the phone docking station, configured to receive data, via short range wireless mechanisms, from the mobile phone, or from other mobile phones, when the mobile phone or the other mobile phones are placed in proximity to the phone docking station, wherein the data comprises phone identity information or phone user identity information associated with the mobile phone or the other mobile phones; and a sensor, a fourth integral component of the phone docking station, configured to: detect insertion of the mobile phone into the docking port to dock with the phone docking station, and initiate, via the input/output port, execution of a Voice over IP (VoIP) application at the mobile phone based on the detected insertion of the mobile phone into the docking port, wherein the NAPT or NAT system configures the forwarding table based on configuration instructions, received from a network administrator, that designate a first kind of the traffic that can be permissibly forwarded and a second kind of the traffic that is to be blocked during forwarding.