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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Luciano M. Verger, San Jose, CA (US);
Ajoy K. Singh, Milpitas, CA (US);
Christopher M. Garrido, San Jose, CA (US);
Najeeb M. Abdulrahiman, Fremont, CA (US);
Ming Jin, Saratoga, CA (US);
Anil G. Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Deepak Chitlur Lakshman, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivasan Vasudevan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David L. Biderman, San Jose, CA (US);
Gurtej Singh Chandok, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Patrick Miauton, Redwood City, CA (US);
Eric A. Allamanche, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to manage communication sessions to handover between a direct connection at a secondary wireless device and a relayed connection to the secondary wireless device via a primary wireless device. A connection manager of a secondary wireless device can trigger transfer of a communication session based on measurements of performance metrics for the communication session. Upon detection of performance degradation in a local connection or a backhaul connection or both, the connection manager of the secondary wireless device can determine proximity of and/or capabilities for connections of the primary wireless device and instigate transfer of the communication session between different connection types, such as between a direct connection and a relayed connection. The transfer of the communication session can occur without user intervention or in response to input from the user without interrupting or reestablishing the communication session.