I'm not an engineer but I've worked with technology for > 35 years.
Beyond the companies current focus related to CDMA and Vchip WiLan holds patents that are fundamentally related to

Bluetooth ( http://www.wi-lan.com/patents/overview.a...
60 GHz
Wibree
Cognitive Radio
RFID
DSL

Each of these wireless based technologies are intended to meet
the needs of various applications aimed at using wireless technology
to create the home, office, or car of the future.

If you research Wibree, Cognitive Radio, Bluethooth, or RFID,
you'l quickly understand how each of these technologies aim to serve
a specific need. The article http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/5916 describes many of the complexities of 60 GHz connectivity and leaves the reader with an inkling of what's to come.

Internet connected TV's, Wireless keyboard, mouse, and remote,
the ability to readily connect laptops, PDA's, phones (cell & home
based), home theater systems, Children's toys, electronic picture
frames and a muriad of products that are yet unannounced will result
in 10's of billions of dollars in retail sales.

Bluetooth provides a way to connect and exchange information
between devices such as mobile phones, telephones, laptops, personal
computers, printers, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers,
digital cameras, and video game consoles. Combine this with Wireless
USB ( http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=34 ) and imagine how many
devices may be sold. Then imagine how wireless Bluetooth being
integrated into billions of devices will change the home environment.

RFID is just coming into it own. Although its been around a while
it is not widely used. One of its primary applications currently is
for tracking vehicles using toll roads. Imagine how it may be used in
gocery stores for inventory control and then extrapolate that to the
home refrigerator creating a shopping list on your home computer.


Licensing these technologies is bound to be slow. Companies like
Research in Motion and Nokia are relatively simple - They basically
make one product. Companies like DLink have dozens of products that
currently or will soon use wireless technologies and their needs are
complex.