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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2017
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
William C. Crosswy, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Matthew J. Wagner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robin Castell, Spring, TX (US);
Craig Walrath, Spring, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment of the present invention, a portable computing device for wireless communications comprises a first network interface for communicating with a public wireless wide area network (WWAN), a second network interface for communicating with a private wireless local area network (WLAN), and a processor executing under control of software instructions, the software instructions defining a gateway protocol, the gateway protocol establishing the portable computing device as an access point within the private WLAN after the wireless presence on the public WWAN is established.