System and method for enabling wireless data transfer
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsMichael Peter Montemurro, Roger Paul Durand
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Abstract
A method of enabling wireless data transfer to an electronic device having a transceiver structured to interact in a first mode with a first wireless network and in a second mode with a second wireless network, including repeatedly powering up the transceiver and enabling the second mode to await receipt of a second beacon signal through the second wireless network, receiving an instance of the second beacon signal with an indication of availability of data to be transferred to the electronic device through the first wireless network, and in response to the receiving of the instance of the second beacon signal with the indication of availability of the data, enabling the first mode to receive the data through the first wireless network.
Claims16
A local server of a local area network, the server comprising a processor configured to execute a communications routine that when executed causes the local server to:
- signal a cellular server to transmit a beacon signal through a cellular network, the beacon signal indicating the availability of data for an electronic device on the local server, and the beacon signal being transmitted as part of a first set of beacon signals that are repeatedly transmitted at a first interval, a second set of beacon signals being repeatedly transmitted by an access point of the local area network at a second interval shorter than the first interval;
- receive, from the electronic device, a response to receipt of the beacon signal indicating the availability of data on the local server;
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- transmit the data to the electronic device through the local area network.
A method of transmitting data to an electronic device from a local server of a local area network, the method comprising:
- the local server signalling a cellular server to transmit a beacon signal through a cellular network, the beacon signal indicating the availability of data for the electronic device on the local server, and the beacon signal being transmitted as part of a first set of beacon signals that are repeatedly transmitted at a first interval, a second set of beacon signals being repeatedly transmitted by an access point of the local area network at a second interval shorter than the first interval;
- the local server receiving, from the electronic device, a response to receipt of the beacon signal indicating the availability of data on the local server;
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- the local server transmitting the data to the electronic device through the local area network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.