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US 2011/0216735 A1Published application
Legacy and advanced access service network internetworking
OwnerMuthaiah Venkatachalam, Xiangying Yang +1inventors
InventorsMuthaiah Venkatachalam, Xiangying Yang, Shantidev Mohanty
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for transferring wireless connections among legacy and advanced access service networks.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, at a first base station from a second base station via an R8 interface, a connection context associated with a wireless connection of a mobile station;
- receiving a ranging request from the mobile station;
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- transmitting, to the mobile station, a ranging response including a context retention identifier to enable one or more functionalities of a WiMAX Release 2.0 access service network (ASN) cluster.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a handover manager configured to:
- detect a handover event associated with a wireless connection of a mobile station being handed off from a first access service network (ASN) cluster to a second ASN cluster;
- determine the second ASN cluster is a legacy ASN cluster;
- and
- translate an advanced connection context to a legacy connection context based on said determination that the second ASN cluster is a legacy ASN cluster;
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- a communication interface coupled to the handover manager and configured to transmit the legacy connection context to the second ASN cluster.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a mobile station, a message that includes a first paging group identifier;
- determining the first paging group identifier is different from a second paging group identifier that identifies a paging group to which the mobile station is associated;
- transmitting a location update to a first paging controller that is associated with a legacy access service network (ASN) cluster;
- receiving a response from the first paging controller;
- and
- receiving a context retention identifier from a second paging controller based on the response from the first paging controller, the second paging controller being associated with an advanced ASN cluster.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.