Patent 7689210 was granted and assigned to Broadcom (company) on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus for communicating between devices is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises detecting, at a switch, a presence of a first repeater coupled to the switch at a location, and automatically configuring the first repeater to enable the first repeater to communicate with a mobile station and the switch without using information resulting from a site survey of the location.