Patent ID: 8320940

Claim:
A mobile access point comprising: a terminal module configured to provide one or more terminal functions for use by a user, the one or more terminal functions including a voice or data communications application; a gateway module configured to provide one or more gateway functions for use by at least one client device, the one or more gateway functions including providing the at least one client device access to a computer network; a processor configured to execute the terminal module and the gateway module to effectuate their corresponding functions, wherein the processor is further configured to reformat data between a first wireless communications protocol corresponding to an IP transport protocol, and a second wireless communications protocol corresponding to the at least one client device; voice/data communications processing logic configured to allow the user to use the mobile access point to conduct voice or data communications; and processing logic configured to perform at least one of modulation, demodulation, encoding and decoding based on the first wireless communications protocol, and to cooperate independently with the voice/data communications processing logic to effect data services.