Communication over wireless modem using sockets protocol

摘要

At a computing system (100), communication over a wireless modem is effected by invoking socket calls corresponding to a Sockets protocol standard. Sockets emulation for the Sockets protocol standard is provided by translating the first set of socket calls into service calls that control the wireless modem, and that perform communication through the wireless modem. A destination address is determined using a parameter referenced by one of the socket calls A particular data format is selected based at least in part on a configuration source. A data packet is formed according to the particular data format that contains particular data referenced one of the socket calls, and any information necessary to route the data packet to the destination address. The data packet is transmitted over the communication link using the wireless modem. Remote units (102-104) are PC's with wireless modems and Winsock sockets.