Patent ID: 7366304

Claim:
In a device having an embedded antenna designed for supporting wireless communication via the U-NII wireless protocol, a basic input/output system (BIOS), and an interface for electrically coupling a CRUable U-NII radio, a method for providing an authorized U-NII transmitter within the device, said method comprising: detecting at the interface an electrical coupling to a CRUable mPCI card containing a U-NI-standard radio having an associated radio PCI ID and other identifying characteristic; comparing the radio's PCI ID with a second radio PCI ID obtained from a table of radio-antenna PCI ID pairs corresponding to authorized U-NII radio-antenna combinations, wherein said table is provided within the BIOS of the device and said second radio PCI ID is selected by matching the antenna ID of the embedded antenna with a similar antenna ID within the table; and enabling U-NII transmission via the combination of the radio and the antenna only when said radio IDs match, indicating an approved combination of said radio and said embedded antenna; wherein, when the radio IDs do not match, said method further comprises preventing the use of the radio with the antenna.