Patent ID: 8472870

Claim:
A method of communicating through a repeater, comprising: receiving a wireless communications at a first repeater; detecting, with the first repeater, a first format of the wireless communication signal, the first format being compatible with a wireless cellular network; communicating, with the first repeater and in a second format over a wired connection, format information indicating the first format, the second format being different from the first format and compatible with a wired internet protocol network; wirelessly receiving, at the first repeater, first data in the first format; converting, at the first repeater, the first data from the first format to the second format; communicating, with the first repeater, the first data via the wired connection in the second format; receiving, at the first repeater and via the wired connection, second data in the second format; converting the second data from the second format to the first format; wirelessly transmitting the second data from the first repeater in the first format; receiving, at a second repeater, the format information from the first repeater via a second wired connection; selecting, with the second repeater, a third format from among a plurality of formats, the third format being compatible with a wireless cellular network; receiving, at the second repeater via the second wired connection, the first data in the second format from the first repeater; converting, at the second repeater, the first data from the second format to the third format; wirelessly transmitting the first data from the second repeater in the third format; wirelessly receiving, at the second repeater, the second data in the third format; converting, at the second repeater, the second data from the third format to the second format; and communicating, from the second repeater to the first repeater, the second data in the second format via the second wired connection.