Patent ID: 8250244

Claim:
A method for connecting a host computer device to a wireless communication network, the host computer device being provided with an operating system with at least one pre-installed generic driver providing a generic communication protocol for communication between the host computer device and a standard class of computer peripheral devices other than wireless modem devices, the method comprising: connecting a wireless modem device to the host computer device; setting up, by means of the pre-installed generic driver of the operating system, a modem/host communication interface for communication between the wireless modem device and the computer device; connecting the host computer device to a wireless communication network via the wireless modem device; and routing data traffic between the host computer device and the wireless communication network over the modem/host communication interface, wherein the generic communication protocol is used in the modem/host communication interface for transferring the data traffic between the host computer device and the wireless modem device, and wherein a proxy server application with predefined connection parameters is stored on the wireless modem device and the connecting the host computer device to a wireless communication network via the wireless modem device comprises running the proxy server application, the proxy server application comprising an embedded proprietary protocol stack for the routing the data traffic between the host computer device and the wireless communication network over the modem/host communication interface.