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US 8,428,598 B2Granted
Proactive handover policy
AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
InventorJay J. Lee
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Abstract
An exemplary system and method for determining handovers for a mobile device are disclosed. An exemplary system may generally include a handover server in communication with a communication network configured to support initiated communications from a mobile device. The handover server is configured to detect an initiated communication between the mobile device and a first communication link, determine a value for each of a plurality of factors associated with each of a plurality of available communication links, and assign a desired communication link to the mobile device from the plurality of available communication using a generally simultaneous assessment of the plurality of factors.
Claims21
A method, comprising:
- detecting an initiated communication between a mobile device and a first communication link;
- determining a value for each of a plurality of factors associated with each of a plurality of available communication links, the plurality of factors including a plurality of types of factors;
- assigning a desired communication link from the plurality of available communication links based upon a generally simultaneous assessment of the plurality of factors;
- and
- establishing selecting the desired communication link from the plurality of available communication links based upon at least a numerical comparison of each of the communication links, the numerical comparison including a comparison of a first one of the plurality of factors with a second one of the plurality of factors, the first one of the plurality of factors having a first one of the plurality of types, the second one of the plurality of factors having a second one of the plurality of types.
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A communication system, comprising:
- a handover server storing a heuristic for determining handovers for a mobile device;
- wherein the handover server is configured to detect an initiated communication between the mobile device and a first communication link, the handover server further configured to determine a value for each of a plurality of factors associated with each of a plurality of available communication links, the plurality of factors including a plurality of types of factors, the handover server further configured to assign a desired communication link to the mobile device from the plurality of available communication using a simultaneous assessment of the plurality of factors, the handover server further configured to select the desired communication link from the plurality of available communication links based upon at least a generally simultaneous numerical comparison of the communication links, the numerical comparison including a comparison of a first one of the plurality of factors with a second one of the plurality of factors, the first one of the plurality of factors having a first one of the plurality of types, the second one of the plurality of factors having a second one of the plurality of types.
A system, comprising:
- a handover server in communication with a communication network configured to support initiated communications from a mobile device;
- wherein the handover server is configured to detect an initiated communication between the mobile device and a first communication link, the handover server further configured to determine a value for each of a plurality of factors associated with each of a plurality of available communication links, the plurality of factors including a plurality of types of factors, the handover server further configured to assign a desired communication link to the mobile device from the plurality of available communication using a simultaneous assessment of the plurality of factors, the handover server further configured to select the desired communication link from the plurality of available communication links based upon at least a generally simultaneous numerical comparison of the communication links, the numerical comparison including a comparison of a first one of the plurality of factors with a second one of the plurality of factors, the first one of the plurality of factors having a first one of the plurality of types, the second one of the plurality of factors having a second one of the plurality of types.
A method, comprising:
- detecting an initiated communication between a mobile device and a first communication link;
- determining a value for each of a plurality of factors associated with each of a plurality of available communication links;
- assigning a desired communication link from the plurality of available communication links based upon a generally simultaneous assessment of the plurality of factors
- normalizing the plurality of factors to create a plurality of normalized factors;
- establishing the normalizing of the plurality of factors as scaling each of the plurality of factors between a minimum magnitude associated with each of the plurality of factors and a maximum magnitude associated with each of the plurality of factors;
- and
- establishing determining the desired communication link as determining the desired communication link based upon at least the plurality of normalized factors.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.