公开(公告)号：US07099295B1

公开(公告)日：2006-08-29

申请号：US09384108

申请日：1999-08-27

申请人： Michael Anthony Doyle ,  Joseph Harold Buccino ,  Robert Philip Vandervecht

发明人： Michael Anthony Doyle ,  Joseph Harold Buccino ,  Robert Philip Vandervecht

IPC分类号： H04Q7/24

CPC分类号： H04W88/10 ,  H04W88/08

摘要： A bridge apparatus is provided for interfacing or bridging between a wired network having wired communication devices and wireless devices. The bridge apparatus of the present invention is typically used in a warehouse inventory control system. In one embodiment, the bridge apparatus includes two more radios having different modalities in order to provide different modality and/or types of coverage to different wireless devices. In another embodiment, a single bridge apparatus offers different coverage areas. The bridge apparatus has a filter device for filtering data received from the wired network, and forwards the filtered data to a wireless device. Thus, data can be forwarded to the wireless devices from the wired network without a need for protocol conversion. In another embodiment, a bridge apparatus functions both as an access point to filter data received from the wired network, and as a base station to convert protocol information included in data received from the wired network.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于在具有有线通信设备的有线网络和无线设备之间进行接口或桥接的桥接设备。 本发明的桥式装置通常用于仓库库存控制系统中。 在一个实施例中，桥接装置包括两个具有不同模态的无线电装置，以便向不同的无线装置提供不同的模式和/或类型的覆盖。 在另一实施例中，单桥装置提供不同的覆盖区域。 桥式设备具有用于过滤从有线网络接收到的数据的过滤设备，并将经过滤的数据转发到无线设备。 因此，数据可以从有线网络转发到无线设备，而不需要协议转换。 在另一个实施例中，桥接装置既用作接入点，也可以对从有线网络接收的数据进行过滤，并且作为基站来转换包括在从有线网络接收的数据中的协议信息。