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US 2010/0165947 A1Published application
Network Discovery Mechanisms
AssigneesToshiba America Reserch, Inc., Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
InventorsKenichi Taniuchi, Yoshihiro Ohba, Subir Das, Sunil Madhani, 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.
Claims10
A method for a media independent handover function entity to discover and obtain network information, comprising;
- making a query by using location information of the media independent handover function entity;
- delivering the query from the media independent handover function entity to an information server;
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- reporting back the list of network information refined based on the location information from the server to the media independent handover function entity.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.