Patent ID: 7346025

Claim:
A portable wireless gateway comprising: at least one access point that communicates with user devices; a transceiver that communicates with a network; and, a protocol emulator comprising: a protocol gateway that determines an authorization of respective user devices to receive services from the portable wireless gateway, wherein the protocol gateway contacts a third party subscriber database, via the network, on behalf of the respective user devices, to verify a validity of a user name and password received from the user device at least one time and, when the respective user devices are authorized to receive the services of the portable wireless gateway according to information received from the third party subscriber database, the protocol gateway encapsulates user device data of the respective authorized user devices relayed by the at least one access point to prepare the user device data for transmission by the transceiver in a protocol associated with the network in communication with the transceiver, and unpackages data from the network relayed by the transceiver for delivery to the at least one access point and relaying to at least one of the user devices.