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Timestamp: 2019-04-24 01:01:02
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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 2001', 'Application No. 2001', 'Application No. 2001', 'Application No. 2001', 'Application No. 2001', 'Application No. 10183231', 'Application No. 09155416', 'Application No. 00983998', 'Application No. 02736804', 'Application No. 2393719', 'Application No. 2393719', 'Application No. 2393719', 'Application No. 07004012', 'Application No. 09155416', 'Application No. 2393719', 'Application No. 00983998', 'Application No. 09155416', 'Application No. 02736804', 'Application No. 07004012', 'Application No. 00983998']

US8687610B2 - Infrastructure for wireless LANS - Google Patents
US8687610B2
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This application claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/784,588, filed Feb. 23, 2004, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/231,625, filed Jan. 14, 1999, now abandoned, which is based on Prov. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 60/071,302, filed Jan. 16, 1998.
an access point configured to be associated with and communicate data packets from the central computer to one or more mobile units using a wireless data communication standard protocol, wherein the data packets each include a mobile unit destination address and a source address; and
a switching hub connected to the central computer through a first wired network connection, and connected to the access point via a second wired network connection at a port of the switching hub;
wherein the switching hub includes a routing list correlating the source address with the port of the data switching hub;
wherein, upon association of the one or more mobile units with the access point, the hub updates the routing list to include association of the mobile unit with the port of the data switching hub to which the access point is connected;
wherein the switching hub is configured to determine the destination of the packet based on the destination address and route the packet to the access point if the destination of the packet is a mobile unit associated with the access point such that the access point acts merely as a conduit sending packets received from the hub and from the mobile units;
wherein the access point is connected to the switching hub via an Ethernet connection;
wherein the access point receives electrical power via the Ethernet connection;
wherein the switching hub includes DC power supply coupled to a cable providing the Ethernet connection;
wherein the cable includes a first pair of the wire pairs coupled to the DC power supply, and a second pair of wire pairs for communicating the data packets to the access point; and
wherein a choke circuit is coupled between the DC power supply and the access point.
2. The wireless local area network system of claim 1, wherein the access point includes a connecter jack configured to be directly received by a socket provided in a surface, wherein the socket is communicatively coupled to the switching hub.
3. The wireless local area network system of claim 1, wherein the access point is further configured to prevent the relaying of predetermined types of data packets.
4. The wireless local area network system of claim 1, wherein the wireless data communication standard protocol is the communications protocol of the IEEE 802.11 protocol.
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