WiFi network bridge, and WiFi-based communication method and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9386609-B2
Application number	US-201214365042-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 25, 2012
Priority date	Dec 15, 2011
Publication date	Jul 5, 2016
Grant date	Jul 5, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a WiFi network bridge, a WiFi-based communication method and system, the WiFi network bridge of the present disclosure may first acquire LTE communication link information, after receiving a WiFi connection establishment request sent by a WiFi terminal, establish a WiFi communication link with the WiFi terminal, and send authentication request information to a LTE base transceiver station; then the WiFi network bridge may judge whether the authentication succeeds, and if the authentication succeeds, a LTE communication link with the LTE base transceiver station is established according to the acquired LTE communication link information. That is to say, the present disclosure implements the backhaul of a WiFi AP network by using a LTE wireless network, avoiding the need to deploy a wire backhaul every time before a WiFi AP network is deployed, thereby the network topology of WiFi communications can be simplified, the engineering cost and usage cost can be lowered, and the satisfaction of user experiences can be improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A WiFi-based communication method, comprising:
acquiring, by a WiFi network bridge, LTE communication link information; wherein the LTE communication link information comprises frequency band information of a LTE network;
initiating, by a WiFi terminal, a WiFi connection establishment request to the WiFi network bridge, and establishing a WiFi communication link with the WiFi network bridge;
sending, by the WiFi network bridge, authentication reque…

Assignees

• Wang Xuesong
• Dou Di
• Wang Xiyu
• Tang Xiong
• Zheng Xuejin
• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Wang Xuesong
• Dou Di
• Wang Xiyu
• Tang Xiong
• Zheng Xuejin

Classifications

• H04W88/14

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W92/20

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/0853

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/10 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W12/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic