An 802.11 Router For 3G Internet Service

An anonymous reader writes "Possio AB has launched a Linux-based wireless access point that allows users to connect to the Internet through 3G (third-generation) mobile telephone networks, which carry Internet data at broadband speeds. According to the Swedish company, which has filed for a patent on local-to-cellular routers, the PX30 can bring broadband wireless Internet service to small sites such as cafes, temporary hotspots such as building and event sites, mobile hot-spots such as buses and limos, and hot-spots in locations without a wired backhaul alternative. It can also be used, Possio says, by mobile-only carriers wishing to offer broadband Internet service, and in data acquisition and remote management applications such as M2M (machine-to-machine) applications."

Comments

How is Routing Between Two Networks Non-Obvious

[HeelToe]

I don't get this - how can you file for a patent on routing between two networks? There's no way this is non-obvious to an engineer in the trade.

Jeez, I've done this with nat under linux to my Verizon Wireless 1x phone.

Patents are out of control.

Re:How is Routing Between Two Networks Non-Obvious

[Mr Rohan]

I don't get this - how can you file for a patent on routing between two networks? There's no way this is non-obvious to an engineer in the trade.

Without seeing their actual claims it's hard to know whether it should be obvious or not. Perhaps they are patenting the combination of hardware being used, rather than the idea. There are lots of legitimate existing patents that are "the application of this notion thats obvious in another field to a new domain".

The test of obviousness is an interesting one. Lots of things are obvious after the fact, the question for the patent lawyers is does that make them obvious before the fact or not.