Network discovery mechanisms
AssigneesToshiba America Research, Inc., Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
InventorsTaniuchi Kenichi, Yoshihiro Ohba, Sunl Madhani, Subir Das, Ashutosh Dutta
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Abstract
In some of the preferred embodiments, a method for network discovery of a mobile device to use at least one of a plurality of access networks within an IP network includes: obtaining specified network information in the vicinity of a given location based on a set of criteria when a mobile is connected to the IP network from any location.
Claims32
A method for network discovery of a mobile device to use at least one of a plurality of access networks within an IP network, comprising:
- obtaining specified network information in the vicinity of a given location based on a set of criteria when a mobile is connected to the IP network from any location.
A method for the discovery of network information of a target network by a mobile device, comprising:
- a) dynamically constructing at least one discovery database of network information;
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- b) using the at least one discovery database to provide network information about the target network before the mobile device is connected to the target network.
A method for a media independent handover function entity to discover and obtain network information existing within a geographical area to facilitate the handovers, comprising:
- employing an application-layer mechanism for information services (AIS) based service discovery scheme using RDF as a database structure.
A method for defining the structure of information elements for network discovery of mobile devices, comprising:
- portioning media independent information service schema into basic schema and extended schema categories, wherein basic schema is essential for a media independent handover to support and extended schema is optional for a media independent handover to support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.