Patent ID: 8059580
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for facilitating communications between devices in a communications network, the network having a wireless service provider telephone switch connected to the Internet, wherein at least one of the devices is a wireless mobile device, the method comprising: wirelessly receiving, in a portable internet micro cell device, first data directly from the wireless mobile device, the first data comprising mobile-phone communications of a cellular-mobile-phone protocol, the wireless mobile device configured to communicate with both a communication tower that is communicatively coupled to the wireless service provider telephone switch and the portable internet micro cell device via the cellular-mobile-phone protocol; and sending, from the portable internet micro cell device, via a wired Ethernet connection of the portable internet micro cell device, the first data comprising the mobile-phone communications received from the wireless mobile device to the wireless service provider telephone switch, the first data from the wireless mobile device being sent individually via a tunnel through the Internet, translating the data from the cellular-mobile-phone protocol into a second protocol prior to sending the data to the wireless service provider telephone switch.