Patent ID: 7555260

Claim:
A personal, low-power, lightweight, compact mobile cell phone base station installable adapter feature, integrated into a personal computer or laptop, to provide temporary intra-building cell phone communications for home, office or travel, supporting a limited number of cell phone users, capable of dynamically and automatically generating a new active cell at a user selectable location to extend a private cell phone communication network coverage area comprising: electronic circuits used to implement said cell phone base station installable adapter feature; an antenna interconnected to said electronic circuits for generating electromagnetic signals for communication with a cell phone; a first communication interface from said cell phone base station installable adapter feature to said personal computer or lap top enabling said cell phone base station installable adapter feature to communication through said personal computer or lap top; a second communication interface integrated into said personal computer or laptop for establishing a separate communication channel through an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to the Internet or through a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to a cell phone communication network MTSO (Mobile Telephone Switching Office) controller enabling said cell phone base station adapter feature to connect through said first communication interface through said personal computer or laptop through said second communication interface through an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to the Internet or through a PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to communicate with a cell phone communication network MTSO controller; a power source for providing energy to allow said electronic circuits, said antenna, and said communications interface to function; data and an executable computer program resident in a personal computer or lap top system memory and said base station feature enabling said integrated base station to operate in conjunction with said personal computer or laptop computer; a means of by which said compact integrated cell phone base station feature, operating in conjunction with said personal computer or laptop, identifies itself to a cell phone communications network MTSO controller to negotiate permission for said integrated mobile base station feature for incorporation into said cell phone private communication network as a new additional active cell and use at least 1 cell phone communication channel.