Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Patent
1993-04-28
1999-12-21
Follansbee, John A.
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
455428, 370216, 709239, H04Q 700, G06F 1300
Patent
active
060060905
ABSTRACT:
Roaming capability is provided to mobile computers within a standard network such as a Novell network. In a computer network running under a network operating system that provides for fault-tolerant internet routing of network communications between nodes and requires that network ID of a node remain constant for the duration of session, the nodes include multiple mobile computing devices wirelessly connected to the network. The mobile computing devices are provided with the capability to roam during a session by changing access points to the network. This capability is provided by programming the mobile computing devices so as to appear to the network as routers able to change access points during a session. The routers connect one sub-net to one other sub-net, the one sub-net being connected to a mobile computing device and having a fixed network ID and the other sub-net, through fault-tolerant internet routing being connected to a selectable access point and therefore having a variable network ID. The resulting workstation/routers may be termed virtual routers in that they connect a purely logical sub-net having a fixed network ID but no physical instantiation to exactly one other sub-net.
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Coleman Arthur Bernard
Grau, Jr. Juan
Truong Linh Tien
Follansbee John A.
Proxim Inc.
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