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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for seamlessly roaming between a wireless wide area network and a wireless local area network
- Patent Title (中): 在无线广域网和无线局域网之间无缝漫游的系统和方法
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Application No.: US10555676Application Date: 2004-05-06
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Publication No.: US08432868B2Publication Date: 2013-04-30
- Inventor: Lei Feng , Xiaoling Shao , Jiawen Tu , Yonggang Du , Bo Liu , Xiaohui Jin , Jianbo Tian , Xiaolu Sun
- Applicant: Lei Feng , Xiaoling Shao , Jiawen Tu , Yonggang Du , Bo Liu , Xiaohui Jin , Jianbo Tian , Xiaolu Sun
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Agent Larry Liberchuk
- Priority: CN03122389 20030509
- International Application: PCT/IB2004/050612 WO 20040506
- International Announcement: WO2004/100452 WO 20041118
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00

Abstract:
The present invention takes the advantage of the WLAN resources in hotspots for voice and data connections and enables seamless handover between WWAN and WLAN and vice versa. This allows two users in the hotspots to communicate with each other by making a voice over IP (VoIP) or video call, thus achieving cost savings for the end users and WWAN resources savings for the wireless operators. According to one embodiment of the invention, a mobile terminal has wireless wide area network (WWAN) and wireless local area network (WLAN) interfaces. The mobile terminal via a WWAN. If a WLAN is present, the mobile terminal sends a handover request together with its network address to the called mobile terminal, using a short message service (SMS) technique or a watermarking technique, for initiating a WLAN call with the called mobile terminal via a WLAN. After the WLAN call is established with the called mobile terminal, the mobile terminal releases the WWAN call.
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