Multi-sensor assisted cellular handoff technique

A method for assisting in handoff in a cellular communication system having a plurality of base stations for communication with mobile cellular devices, comprising:

• (a) providing a first base station of said plurality of base stations having a data base of patterns of known handoff to predetermined different base stations of said plurality of base stations;
• (b) providing a mobile cellular device having:
• (i) apparatus for indicating the direction of a change of direction of said mobile device;
• (ii) circuitry for providing a signal to said first base station indicative of said direction of change of direction and a said pattern from said data base at said first base station;
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• (c) responsive to said signal to said first base station from said mobile cellular device indicative of a direction of said change of direction of said mobile cellular device and responsive to said pattern from said data base, selecting a different base station of said plurality of base stations for handoff of said mobile cellular device.

A mobile cellular device capable of selective concurrent communication of information to and from a base station, which comprises:

• (a) a mobile device having a transmitter for transmitting data to a base station and a receiver for concurrently receiving data from a base station;
• (b) apparatus at said mobile device for non-manually indicating the direction of a change of direction of said mobile device;
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• (c) said transmitter at said mobile device including circuitry which, when communicating with a base station, continuously provides indicia of said direction of a change of direction of said mobile device to a base station.