Patent ID: 8121052

Claim:
A method of using a customer premises equipment (CPE) to represent a mobile station (MS) to a base station (BS), wherein the CPE and the BS are part of a first wireless network based upon a first networking standard, and the MS and the CPE are part of a second wireless network based upon a second networking standard; the method comprising: associating the MS with the CPE; indicating to the BS that the CPE is acting as an agent for the MS on the second wireless network; acting as the agent, on the second wireless network, for the MS; storing context information related to the MS, wherein the context information includes MS context information related the first network and MS context information related the second network; and wherein indicating to the BS that the CPE is acting as the agent for the MS includes: transmitting, via the first network, a ranging request to the BS, wherein the ranging request includes: a MS agent field indicating that the CPE is acting as the agent for the MS, and a medium access control (MAC) address of the MS on the first network.