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US 2009/0245199 A1Published application
Wireless hand-over in mobile deployments
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsArnavkumar M. Pathan, Gaetan Feige, Johannes Petrus Kruys
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Abstract
The network communication system includes a wireless interface to exchange wireless signals during at least one network connection, and a handover controller that uses a route profile identifying access points distributed over a given route or region that are capable of supporting the network connection, and to handover the network connection between access points as the device travels along the given route or through a region according to the route profile.
Claims20
A device comprising:
- a wireless interface to exchange wireless signals during at least one network connection;
- and
- a handover controller that makes use of a route profile identifying access points distributed over a route that are capable of supporting the network connection, and to handover the network connection between identified access points according to the route profile as the device travels along the predetermined route.
A method comprising:
- exchanging wireless signals during at least one network connection;
- identifying access points distributed over a predetermined route that are capable of supporting the network connection;
- and
- handing-over the network connection between identified access points as the device travels along the predetermined route.
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A device comprising:
- a wireless interface to exchange wireless signals during at least one network connection;
- and
- a handover controller to identify access points within a geographical region that are capable of supporting the network connection and to handover the network connection between identified access points as the device travels in the geographical region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.