Patent ID: 7617342

Claim:
A universal serial bus (USB) dongle device comprising: a wireless telephony transceiver that receives an inbound radio frequency (RF) signal and that generates inbound data based on the inbound RF signal and receives outbound data and that generates an outbound RF signal in response thereto, wherein the inbound RF signal and the outbound RF signal are formatted in accordance with a wireless telephony protocol; a USB plug for connecting to a host device; a USB controller circuit coupled to format the inbound data in a USB format for communication to the host device and to recover the outbound data from outbound data received in the USB format from the host device; and a millimeter wave interface, coupled to the wireless telephony transceiver and the USB controller circuit, including a first millimeter wave transceiver coupled to the wireless telephony transceiver and a second millimeter wave transceiver coupled to the USB controller circuit; wherein the wireless telephony transceiver, the millimeter wave interface and the USB controller circuit are included in an integrated circuit package; and wherein the millimeter wave interface wirelessly communicates the inbound data and the outbound data between the wireless telephony transceiver and the USB controller circuit via intra-chip signaling in a millimeter wave frequency band.