Title:
A METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SHORTEN THE DURATION OF INITIAL NETWORK SELECTION AND HANDOVER DECISIONS IN MULTICOMM PLATFORMS BY UTILIZING ALTERNATE FRAGMENTED SCANNING
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/030478
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter capable of combining more than one wireless communication technology (comm) for wireless communication in a wireless network, wherein the apparatus includes a network detection phase implemented by doing a full scan of one comm followed by one or more additional comm scans; and wherein the network adapter breaks a scan into buckets, and alternates between different scanning buckets of different comms to provide faster scanning, connection time and handover from one wireless technology to another wireless technology.
Inventors:
AVITAL SHLOMO M (IL)
RATNER MIRI (IL)
RATNER MIRI (IL)
Application Number:
PCT/US2011/046892
Publication Date:
April 26, 2012
Filing Date:
August 08, 2011
Export Citation:
Assignee:
INTEL CORP (US)
AVITAL SHLOMO M (IL)
RATNER MIRI (IL)
AVITAL SHLOMO M (IL)
RATNER MIRI (IL)
International Classes:
H04W48/16; H04W36/14; H04W88/06
Foreign References:
| US20070275746A1 | 2007-11-29 | |||
| US20090103496A1 | 2009-04-23 | |||
| US20090198804A1 | 2009-08-06 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
OSBORNE, David W. et al. (P.O. Box 52050Minneapolis, MN, US)
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