Patent ID: 8917735

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a wireless telephone with capability to connect to a data network, the wireless telephone including, an antenna; and a module configured to implement an access point (AP), a router, and network address translation to thereby create a wireless local area network which, when receiving a packet from a device coupled to said wireless local area network that requests connection to a specified destination address on the data network, replaces a local area network source address of said packet with a network address of said router and inserts a port number in said packet, wherein said module selects said port number from a set of pre-chosen port numbers according to a device type of said device; wherein devices of a first type on said wireless local area network are assigned respective first port numbers by said wireless telephone, said first port numbers being selected such that a modulo n representation of each of said first port numbers is a first number, n being an integer, and wherein devices of a second type are assigned respective other port numbers by said wireless telephone, said other port numbers being selected such that said modulo n representation of each of said other port numbers is a second number.