What is a virtual miniport adapter

I have a T520. I have Access Connections installed. Running Windows 7 Pro.
When I look at Network Connections from control panel, it shows 4 adapters. LAN, Wireless Network (Intel Centrino Advance-N 6205 plus two others that say wirels connection 2 and wireless connection 3. Latter two are described as Microsoft virtual wifi miniport adapter.
Could anyone explain just what the purpose of the miniport adapters is?
Another question. We are limited at our resort to 4 wifi connections. If we use one too many one gets bumped of for 24hrs (thanks to Hilton hhonors1) If I activate the Hotspot feature (so we can add guest users) does the computer still use just one wifi connection?

Thanks. After not getting an answer here, I did eventually find that link. There is not much out there either from Lenovo or Microsoft.
I still don't really know what the second miniport would be used for. Nor, if the miniport is using up one of my wifi connections (which are limited at our location)

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       DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
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       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
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       Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.20.1
       DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 603503634
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       NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
    Ethernet adapter SLOT 2 Port 2:
       Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
       Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
       Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet #4
       Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0A-F7-3E-FD-61
       DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Ethernet adapter SLOT 2 Port 4:
       Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
       Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
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       DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Ethernet adapter SLOT 2 Port 1:
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       Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0A-F7-3E-FD-60
       DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
    Tunnel adapter isatap.newcms.local:
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       Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : newcms.local
       Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
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       DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
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       Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
       Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
       Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
       DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
       Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
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       Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
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