Patent ID: 8457083
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A device for connecting a centralized wireless network to at least one other network, said device being a wireless station compliant with the IEEE 802.11 or Hiperlan2 standards, said wireless station not being a wireless access point, and further comprising: a wireless interface for managing more than one MAC address for association with an access point of said centralized wireless network, wherein said associations are as defined by the IEEE 802.11 or Hiperlan2 standards; a bridge module for managing a plurality of ports for connecting to respective networks; a link management module for managing associations of different MAC addresses corresponding to devices connected to said at least one other network with said access point of said centralized wireless network such that said devices connected to said at least one other network will appear as wireless stations to the access point; and said device having two protocol stacks, one of said protocol stacks being an IEEE 802.11 protocol stack, said IEEE 802.11 protocol stack operating to control a wireless network.