Patent ID: 8787359

Claim:
A system for use in a subscriber device for providing enhanced wireless wide area network service to a plurality of access devices, the system comprising: at least one processor arranged to communicate with a wireless wide area network via a broadband network, and to communicate wirelessly with the plurality of access devices, the at least one processor operable to, at least: receive a first message, from the wireless wide area network via the broadband network, using a first protocol; transmit a first wireless message based upon the received first message to one of the plurality of access devices, using a second protocol; receive a second wireless message from the one of the plurality of access devices, using the second protocol; transmit a second message based upon the received second wireless message to the wireless wide area network via the broadband network, using the first protocol; and translate one or both of signaling and control messaging, and one or more of voice, data, and multimedia messaging, between the first protocol and the second protocol to support wireless call communication between the one of the plurality of access devices and the wireless wide area network via at least one wireless interface operably coupled to the at least one processor, if it is determined that an association of the subscriber device with at least one wireless wide area network subscriber is known to the wireless wide area network prior to call establishment.