Patent ID: 8606250

Claim:
A first mobile device, comprising: an access point configured to control access of a plurality of second mobile devices to a wireless local area network according to 802.11 wireless local area network protocol; a conference controller configured to control a teleconference between the plurality of second mobile devices accessing the wireless local area network via the access point, wherein the teleconference includes a communication link compatible with the wireless local area network protocol, the communication link including a first information stream that is packet-based and a second information stream that is compatible with a mobile device network; an Internet Protocol (IP) interface configured to i) convert, for transmission to the plurality of second mobile devices in the second information stream, portions of the first information stream received from the wireless local area network, and ii) convert, for transmission to the wireless local area network in the first information stream, portions of the second information stream received from the plurality of second mobile devices; and a wireless local area network transceiver configured to communicate the first information stream to and from the wireless local area network.