Garlick & Markison
Management unit for facilitating inter-network hand-off for a multiservice communication device
A management unit allocates network resources multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the multiservice communication devices via a wireless control channel, the bidirectional data communication including outbound control data sent to multiservice communication devices and inbound control data received from at multiservice communication devices. The wireless control channel is separate from the communication between multiservice communication devices and the networks. A network interface receives network resource data from the networks. A management processing unit generates the outbound control data in response. The management processing unit facilities the handoff of a real-time service accessed by the multiservice communication devices via a first network to a second network.
Broadcom Corporation
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H04W
inventional
Arya Reza David Brima B. John Jeyhan Vinko
Behzad Rosmann Ibrahim Walley Karaoguz Erceg