Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inter-access network handover
- Patent Title (中): 互访网络切换
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Application No.: US12634324Application Date: 2009-12-09
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Publication No.: US08855083B2Publication Date: 2014-10-07
- Inventor: Abdol Hamid Aghvami , Paul Anthony Pangalos , Dev Pragad Audsin
- Applicant: Abdol Hamid Aghvami , Paul Anthony Pangalos , Dev Pragad Audsin
- Applicant Address: US TX Plano
- Assignee: Uniloc USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Uniloc USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Plano
- Agent Sean D. Burdick
- Priority: GB0822814.0 20081215
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04L12/28 ; H04W36/14 ; H04W80/04 ; H04W36/00

Abstract:
In a wireless network environment comprising first and second packet-switched access networks, each access network using a tunnelling-type micro-mobility protocol and a Quality of Service (QoS) routing protocol to route packet data to and from mobile nodes attached thereto, and each access network comprising an access router to which a mobile node may attach, a mobility agent with which said mobile node may register and a gateway, a method of facilitating network layer handover of said mobile node from said first access network to said second access network, said mobile node registered in said first access network with a serving mobility agent, which method comprises the steps of: said mobile node receiving a router advertisement from said second access network, which router advertisement comprises a network-layer address of a target mobility agent in said second access network with which said mobile node may register; and said mobile node forwarding said network-layer address to said serving mobility agent, whereby said serving mobility agent may communicate with said target mobility agent to facilitate network-layer handover of said mobile node to said second access network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100150107A1 Inter-Access Network Handover Public/Granted day:2010-06-17
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