Patent ID: 7742445

Claim:
A method for enabling wireless connections to a network, comprising: receiving wirelessly at a wireless access point identification information from a portable computing device, wherein: the wireless access point and the portable computing device communicate using wireless Ethernet, the wireless access point listens for all types of identification information and answers all queries from the portable computing device even if the wireless access point does not recognize the identification information, the wireless access point provides portable computing devices access to a plurality of communication medium access providers, each of the communication medium access providers wirelessly connects portable computing devices to the network, and the identification information identifies a particular one of the communication medium access providers; determining at the wireless access point the particular one of the communication medium access providers identified in the identification information; receiving wirelessly at the wireless access point data from the portable computing device; and transmitting by the wireless access point the data to a destination of the particular one of the communication medium access providers.