Patent ID: 7873735
Filing Date: 2011-01-18
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a command at a mobile station from a computing device over a local interface between the mobile station and the computing device, where the command places the mobile station into a mode in which a dial-up connection between the mobile station and the computing device is locally terminated at the mobile device without involving any cellular network; establishing an internet protocol connection between the mobile station and the computing device comprising the mobile station assigning an internet protocol address to the computing device and an internet protocol address to the mobile station, and configuring an internet protocol stack at the mobile station, where the internet protocol stack is configured to route packets received via the dial-up connection that is locally terminated at the mobile station to a peer application that is resident in the mobile station; and in response to receiving at the mobile station via the dial-up connection that is locally terminated at the mobile station an internet protocol message from the computing device, routing the internet protocol message received from the computing device to the peer application that is resident in the mobile station, where communications between the mobile station and the computing device occur over the internet protocol connection using the local interface and where the local interface is at least one of a short range infrared, universal serial bus, and Bluetooth interface, where the internet protocol message received from the computing device comprises a communication from a peer application resident in the computing device and where the peer application resident in the computing device and the peer application resident in the mobile station communicate directly with each other via the dial-up connection locally terminated at the mobile station using logical connections between an internet protocol stack at the computing device and the internet protocol stack at the mobile station.