Patent ID: 7027425

Claim:
An impulse radio wireless local area network computing and communication system, comprising: a data communication and computing network; at least one impulse radio portal, said impulse radio portal including a first ultra wideband impulse radio transceiver and an interface with said data communication and computer network; and a mobile unit, said mobile unit comprising: a data input; a data display; a processor; and a second ultra wideband impulse radio transceiver in communication with said first ultra wideband impulse radio transceiver at a data rate, wherein said mobile unit is a dumb terminal for relaying computation requests to a home computer via said impulse radio portal via said data communication and computing network and wherein said home computer communicates the results of said computation request to said dumb terminal via said data communication and computing network via said impulse radio portal, and wherein said first ultra wideband impulse radio transceiver and said second impulse radio transceiver are configured to vary said data rate based on a position of said mobile unit relative to said impulse radio portal determined using ultra wideband impulse radio positioning techniques.