Patent ID: 7298751

Claim:
A Wireless Access Internet Network architecture for providing users access to a communications network, the architecture comprising: a wireless client wherein the wireless client provides an authentication; a wireless server in communication with the wireless client wherein the wireless server includes: a charging module; a Home Location Register (HLR) signaling module; and a Domain Naming System (DNS)/Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) module; an Internet Protocol (IP) network in communication with the wireless server; a Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) gateway device connected to the IP network wherein the gateway device includes a protocol converter that provides conversion from IP messages from the wireless server into SS7 messages authenticating the wireless client; a HLR connected to the gateway device that receives the converted SS7 messages and the identity information from the wireless client for the authentication; and a Short Message Service Gateway (SMS-GW) connected to the wireless server wherein the wireless server transmits Short Message Service (SMS) messages to the SMS-GW.