Patent ID: 7835371

Claim:
A method of wirelessly transmitting a wireless network MAC packet of information by a wireless transmitter coupled to a network device by a packetized network link that is packetized using network packets that are different than the wireless network MAC packet, the method comprising: setting up data transfer of one or more data elements from the network device over the packetized network link, the data elements being for inclusion in the contents of a wireless network MAC packet for transmission by the wireless transmitter, the setting up of forming one or more packets of information each encapsulating a respective data element of the data elements; receiving one or more packets of information from the network device over the packetized network link, each received packet encapsulating a respective data element included in the contents of a wireless network MAC packet; and removing the encapsulated data elements, forming the wireless network MAC packet of information using the removed data elements, and wirelessly transmitting the wireless network MAC packet of information while receiving the one or more packets of information over the packetized network link, such that the wirelessly transmitting of the wireless network MAC packet occurs while the encapsulated data elements that are included in the contents of the wireless network MAC packet are being formed into packets of information in the network device and received encapsulated in the packets of information over the packetized network link without necessarily requiring queuing in the transmitting wireless transmitter.