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AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsAnand S. Bedekar, Rajeev Agrawal, Venkat Gopikanth, Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Vishnu Ram Ov
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A wireless access point (102) detects an indicia of a change in wireless connectivity of a mobile station (101) with respect to itself and another wireless access point (103). The wireless access point then automatically effects at least one of establishing a communication between itself and the second wireless access point regarding the change in wireless connectivity and/or establishing a temporary data tunnel as between itself and the second wireless access point. These network elements can also act to automatically establish a data flow path for the mobile station as between the second wireless access point and a network element (such as a mobility management agent (105)) that is external to the common subnet. In a preferred approach this comprises, at least in part, automatically sending a registration request to the network element other than in response to a specific request from the mobile station to send such a registration request.
A method comprising:
A wireless access point for use in a communication network comprising a local subnet that comprises a plurality of wireless access points, the wireless access point comprising:
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