Calypso Wireless intends and has already begun to aggressively enforce its key patents. Calypso's ASNAP technology (U.S. Patent #6,680,923) titled "Communication System and Method" covers the seamless roaming of voice, video and data between Wide Area Network access points, such as cellular towers (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA, WCMDA etc.) and short-range Internet access points (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.). This enables cell phone users to enjoy up to 11mb broadband speeds, allowing them to video conference with movie-like quality, to send and receive video with audio, movies-on-demand and many other high-speed services that are currently unavailable to them.
“In plain English, any carrier that wishes to provide its customers with a cell phone that automatically detects any available WLANs and then seamlessly switches between the standard cellular link towers and available short-range broadband network, such as cable or DSL Wi-Fi, must sign a license agreement with Calypso Wireless,” clarifies Pattin. |
