Patent ID: 7212837

Claim:
A wireless network system, comprising a plurality of access elements for wireless communication with at least one remote client element and for communication with a central control element; a central control element for supervising said access elements, wherein the central control element is operative to manage and control the wireless connections between the access elements and corresponding remote client elements; establish a tunnel with each access element for transmission of wireless traffic associated with corresponding remote client elements, and bridge network traffic between a computer network and a remote client element through a tunnel with a corresponding access element; and wherein said access elements are each enabled to provide, to corresponding remote client elements, acknowledgments of packets transmitted by respective remote client elements to said access elements, tunnel wireless local area network management messages transmitted by remote client elements to the central control element; wherein said central control element is enabled to process the wireless local area network management messages forwarded by respective access elements to dynamically configure a wireless Local Area Network of said system, and transmit to the access elements messages identifying selected radio frequency channels.