Patent ID: 7339909

Claim:
A wireless local area network access point, comprising: a network interface configured to communicate signals with a wireless wide area network infrastructure; at least one transceiver configured to detect a wireless wide area network uplink signal from a wireless device and configured to communicate wireless local area network signals with the wireless device, wherein the at least one transceiver comprises: a wireless local area network transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless local area network signals to and from the wireless device; and a wireless wide area network transceiver configured to detect a wireless wide area network uplink signal from the wireless device; and a controller coupled to the network interface and the at least one transceiver, the controller configured to inform the wireless wide area network infrastructure, via the network interface, of a wireless device proximal to the wireless local area network access point in response to the at least one transceiver detecting the wireless wide area network uplink signal from the wireless device.