US 2014/0153543 A1 · WIRELESS WIDE AREA NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS INDICATED OVER A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

Abstract

What is disclosed is a method of operating a communications system. The method includes transferring a wireless local area network (WLAN) beacon signal from a wireless transceiver, where the WLAN beacon signal comprises packets identifying the WLAN. The method further provides receiving wireless wide area network (WWAN) signals into the wireless transceiver and determining WWAN characteristics. The WWAN characteristics comprise at least one of signal strength, data rate, and transceiver battery status. The method further includes, in the wireless transceiver, inserting a characteristic indicator into the packet headers of the WLAN beacon signal indicating the WWAN characteristics.

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Dependent claims

A method of operating a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) communication system to transfer Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication system information, the method comprising:

wirelessly receiving an LTE signal from an LTE communication system and processing the LTE signal to determine LTE Radio Frequency (RF) signal strength;
generating a data packet indicating the WiFi communication system and the LTE RF signal strength;
and
wirelessly transferring a WiFi signal from the WiFi communication system including the data packet indicating the WiFi communication system and indicating the LTE RF signal strength.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/175,327Filed 7 Feb 2014

Priority

14 Jul 2011

Published

5 Jun 2014

Term ends

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Classification5 codes

H04W 88/02
Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices: terminal devices
H04W 36/00222
For transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies: between different packet switched [PS] network technologies, e.g.…
H04W 48/10
Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery: using broadcasted information
H04W 84/12
Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks: wLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Wireless wide area network characteristics indicated over a wireless local area network

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Wireless wide area network characteristics indicated over a wireless local area network

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Abstract

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