Patent ID: 7996009

Claim:
A method of authenticating an unlicensed wireless communication subscriber device to utilize an unlicensed wireless communication system based on security information supplied by a licensed wireless communication system, wherein the unlicensed wireless communication system comprises a networked computer for communicatively coupling the unlicensed wireless communication system and the licensed wireless communication system, the method comprising: sending licensed wireless communication system security information from the networked computer to the unlicensed wireless communication subscriber device; receiving an authentication result at the networked computer from said unlicensed wireless communication subscriber device, the authentication result produced by the subscriber device based at least partly on the licensed wireless communication system security information; comparing, at the networked computer, said authentication result with an authentication value received from the licensed wireless communication system to selectively produce an authentication command to allow the subscriber device to access the unlicensed wireless communication system; and enabling unlicensed wireless communications between said subscriber device and the unlicensed wireless communication system in response to said authentication command; wherein said unlicensed wireless communication subscriber device is for communicating with the licensed wireless communication system using licensed wireless frequencies and for communicating with said unlicensed wireless communication system using unlicensed wireless frequencies.