Device, system, and method of wireless network selection and handover
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsVijay Sarathi Kesavan, Kapil Sood
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Abstract
Device, system, and method of wireless network selection and handover. For example, a multi-transceiver wireless device includes: at least first and second co-located wireless transceivers; one or more firmware modules to handle network selection of at least one of the first and second wireless transceivers based on one or more commands received from one or more drivers when the multi-transceiver wireless device is in full-power mode; and a manageability engine to handle network selection of at least one of the first and second wireless transceivers when the multi-transceiver wireless device is in reduced-power mode.
Claims24
A multi-transceiver wireless device comprising:
- at least first and second co-located wireless transceivers;
- one or more firmware modules to handle network selection of at least one of the first and second wireless transceivers based on one or more commands received from one or more drivers when the multi-transceiver wireless device is in full-power mode;
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- a manageability engine to handle network selection of at least one of the first and second wireless transceivers when the multi-transceiver wireless device is in reduced-power mode.
The multi-transceiver wireless device of claim. 3, wherein the manageability engine comprises:
- a network switching module to disconnect the first wireless transceiver from the first wireless network and then to connect the second wireless transceiver to the second wireless network.
A system comprising:
- a manageability engine to manage network selection and network switching for a multi- radio hardware module during reduced-power mode of a host of said multi-radio hardware module, wherein the manageability engine comprises:
- a client-side information service module to query an information server for a list of one or more available wireless networks;
- a network selection module to select a wireless network from the list of one or more available wireless networks received from the information server;
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- a network switching module to disconnect a first radio of the multi-radio hardware module from the first wireless network and to connect a second radio of the multi-radio hardware module to the second wireless network.
A method comprising:
- during a full-power mode of a host of a multi-transceiver hardware module, operating a first component to handle network selection of at least one of first and second wireless transceivers of the multi-transceiver hardware module;
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- during a reduced-power mode of the host of the multi-transceiver hardware module, operating a second component to handle network selection of at least one of the first and second wireless transceivers of the multi-transceiver hardware module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.