Broadband communications access device
A integrated phone-based home gateway system. The integrated phone-based home gateway system is a multi-function wireless networking, wireless telephony, broadband, gateway device. It provides automatic wireless broadband initialization, configuration and service provisioning, gateway, routing and bridging functionality, wireless data and telephony functionality and allows resource sharing among multiple wireless devices.
1. An integrated phone-based home gateway system, comprising, in combination:
a home gateway interface for automatically initializing wireless voice communications, automatic initializing wireless data communications and for providing gateway, routing and bridging for wireless networking communications, wherein the home gateway interface includes automatic service provisioning on the home gateway interface for automatically allocating, configuring and maintaining multiple transmission channels and multiple virtual communications paths used for wireless broadband communications;
a plurality of wireless communications interfaces for automatically connecting to external wireless devices, for automatically connecting to one or more wireless communications networks, for providing wireless broadband communications and for providing wireless narrow-band communications, wherein the plurality of wireless communications interfaces includes a Bluetooth protocol interface, an 802.11b protocol interface, a RF Home protocol interface, a Shared Wireless Access Protocol interface and a Wireless Application Protocol interface, and wherein the plurality of wireless communications interface include a short-range wireless communications interface for connecting to external wireless network devices on a wireless piconet and a long-range wireless communications interface for connecting to external wireless network devices on a wireless wide area network and wherein one or more of the plurality of wireless communications interfaces includes wireless communications channels for wireless Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications; and
a multi-function telephony handset for providing telephony communications.
2. The integrated phone-based home gateway system of claim 1 wherein the home gateway interface further includes a provisioning manager module for service provisioning for wireless communications.
3. The integrated phone-based home gateway system of claim 1 , wherein the multi-function telephony handset performs telephony functions for at least one of a cordless phone, a mobile phone, a web phone, or a walkie-talkie radio.
4. The integrated phone-based home gateway system of claim 1 further comprising a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface including plug-and-play installation capabilities.
5. The integrated phone-based home gateway system of claim 1 further comprising a display interface for displaying information from the home gateway interface and wireless communications interface.
6. The integrated phone-based home gateway system of claim 1 wherein the wireless communications interface includes a wireless communications interface for connecting to a wireless Small Office Home Office (SOHO) network.