Motorola Mobility LLC

Yuanliang Lu

Himanshu R Lokre

Murali Narasimha

Krishna K Bellamkonda

Hui Wang

Steve Kim

Jie Song

Sreenivasulu Rayanki

Nitya Reddy

In embodiments of network connectivity switching utilizing an authentication device for switching network connectivity from a first device to a second device, the authentication device receives a device switch indication from the second device, which can communicate via a cellular network. The authentication device communicates a device switch order to the first device, which is authenticated and communicatively linked for wireless communication via the cellular network. The authentication device communicates a network attach indication to the second device that then communicates an attach request to the cellular network, and the authentication device authenticates the second device to the cellular network. Alternatively, the authentication device receives a device switch indication from the second device and communicates a device switch order to the first device. The first device then communicates connection reestablishment information to the second device that initiates a connection reestablishment with the cellular network based on the connection reestablishment information.

Network connectivity switching utilizing an authentication device

A disclosed method includes preventing a first mobile device from connecting to configured networks having connectivity information stored in a configured networks list stored in memory of the first mobile device, establishing a peer-to-peer connection with a second mobile device, performing a data transfer from the first mobile device to the second mobile device over the peer-to-peer connection while continuing to prevent the first mobile device from connecting to the configured networks, and enabling the first mobile device to connect to the configured networks after completion of the data transfer.

Method for peer-to-peer data transfer using wireless local area network radio equipment

In embodiments of network connectivity switching utilizing an authentication device for switching network connectivity from a first device to a second device, the authentication device maintains an address of the first device with a memory of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag, and the first device is authenticated for wireless communication via the cellular network. The authentication device receives an interrogation of the RFID tag from the second device, which can communicate via the cellular network, and responsive to an RFID tag response indicating the address of the first device, the second device communicates a device switch order to the first device, communicates an attach request to the cellular network, and writes an address of the second device to the memory of the RFID tag. The authentication device can then authenticate the second device to switch the network connectivity to the second device for wireless communication via the cellular network.

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