Patent ID: 8554945

Claim:
A method of interfacing a first local area network (LAN) with a remote LAN, wherein said first LAN includes a cellular-enabled LAN device for communicating with a cellular network, and wherein said cellular network includes a core data network including a bridge, said method comprising the steps of: establishing a bridge identifier to identify said bridge within said core data network within said cellular network; said cellular-enabled LAN device originating a call to said bridge by dialing said bridge identifier; interconnecting said remote LAN with said bridge in response to said bridge identifier; said cellular-enabled LAN device monitoring destination addresses in first LAN network packets originating in said first LAN and echoing to said bridge only first LAN network packets having a destination address outside said first LAN; said remote LAN receiving said echoed first LAN network packets from said bridge; echoing remote LAN network packets originating in said remote LAN from said bridge to said cellular-enabled LAN device; and said cellular-enabled LAN device receiving said echoed remote LAN network packets from said bridge and transmitting them within said first LAN.