Mobile assisted handoff in wireless local area network
OwnerMurali Narasimha, Sanjay Guptainventors
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method in a wireless communication device communicating in a wireless local area network, including determining, at layer 2 architecture of the wireless communication device, error information for a communication link between another device in the wireless local area network and the wireless communication device, and determining whether to handoff from the wireless local area network based on the error information for the communication link.
Claims22
A method in a wireless local area network wherein multiple devices communicate on a common frequency, the method comprising:
- obtaining uplink error information between a wireless communication device and an access point in the local area network;
- obtaining downlink error information between the access point in the local area network and the wireless communication device;
- determining whether to handoff the wireless communication device from the access point based on at least one of the uplink and downlink error information.
A method in a wireless local area network including an access point, the method comprising:
- determining uplink error information between a wireless communication device and the access point;
- communicating the uplink error information to the wireless communication device.
A method in a wireless communication device communicating in a wireless local area network, the method comprising:
- determining layer 2 frame error information for a communication link between another device in the wireless local area network and the wireless communication device;
- determining whether to handoff from the wireless local area network based on the frame error information for the communication link.
A method in a wireless communication device communicating in a wireless local area network, the method comprising:
- determining, at a layer 2 of the wireless communication device, error information for a communication link between another device in the wireless local area network and the wireless communication device;
- determining whether to handoff from the wireless local area network based on the error information for the communication link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.