Patent 7117015 was granted and assigned to Intel on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A portable, low power base station is configured to convey wireless traffic between a mobile station and a conventional wireless network via the Internet. The base station is configured to connect to the Internet at a user-selected location and establishes a small area of wireless coverage within a greater macrocell network. The user sets the operating parameters of the base station.