Techniques to manage roaming
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsEmily Qi, Jesse Walker, Kapil Sood
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Abstract
A system, apparatus, method and article to manage roaming in a wireless communication system are described. An apparatus may include a first wireless device having a processor to receive roaming information for a second wireless device from a third wireless device, and send the roaming information to the second wireless device to establish a connection with the third wireless device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising a first wireless device having a media access control processor to receive roaming information for a second wireless device from a third wireless device, and send said roaming information to said second wireless device to establish a connection with said third wireless device.
A system, comprising:
- an antenna;
- a transceiver to couple to said antenna;
- and
- a first wireless device having a media access control processor to couple to said transceiver, said media access control processor to receive roaming information for a second wireless device from a third wireless device, and send said roaming information to said second wireless device to establish a connection with said third wireless device.
A method, comprising:
- establishing a first connection between a first device and a second device;
- receiving a request for roaming information from said second device;
- sending said request to a third device;
- receiving said roaming information from said third device;
- and
- sending said roaming information to said second device.
An article comprising a machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to establish a first connection between a first device and a second device, receive a request for roaming information from said second device, send said request to a third device, receive said roaming information from said third device, and send said roaming information to said second device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.