A SYSTEM, DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING A MANAGED WIRELESS NETWORK USING SHORT-RANGE RADIO SIGNALS

摘要

A system (Fig. 1), a wireless hand-held device, and software component for accessing information responsive to short-range radio signals is provided. The system includes a wireless gateway device (106) coupled to a network (105), such as a cellular network. The wireless gateway device (106) includes a network manager software component for accessing information from the network responsive to a first short-range radio signal. The network (105) may be a corporate, private or public network, such as the Internet (103). A first wireless device (107) is coupled to the wireless gateway device (106). The first wireless device (107) provides the first short-range radio signal. In an embodiment of the present invention, the first wireless device (107) is a cellular telephone, personal digital assistant or thin terminal having a Bluetooth <TM> processor and transmitter. In an embodiment of the present invention, the network manager software component includes a plug and play software component for loading and executing software for the first wireless device. In an embodiment of the present invention, a second wireless device accesses information on the first wireless device using the wireless gateway device.