Patent ID: 8248968

Claim:
A mobile inter-mesh communication point, comprising: a wireless mesh access point configured to operate utilizing at least one IEEE 802.11x standard to serve as a destination point in a first level ad-hoc wireless mesh network for messages originating from subscriber devices in the first level ad-hoc wireless mesh network prior to offloading said messages as backhaul traffic onto a wireless backhaul network, the first level ad-hoc wireless mesh network implemented using the at least one IEEE 802.11x standard; and a wireless mesh relay point configured to operate utilizing at least one IEEE 802.16x standard to serve as a backhaul relay point in a second level ad-hoc wireless mesh network implemented using the at least one IEEE 802.16x standard, the second level ad-hoc wireless mesh network being different from the first level ad-hoc wireless mesh network and being utilized to implement the wireless backhaul network, the wireless mesh relay point adapted to send at least some of the backhaul traffic onto the second level ad-hoc wireless mesh network for transmission off the second level ad-hoc wireless mesh network by another backhaul relay point, and to send other of the backhaul traffic directly off die second level ad-hoc wireless mesh network, the wireless backhaul network interconnecting the first level ad-hoc wireless mesh network with higher bandwidth communication resources.