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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2002
Fujio Watanabe, San Jose, CA (US);
Shahid Shoaib, San Jose, CA (US);
Jingjun Cao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shoji Kurakake, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, San Jose, CA (US);
Shahid Shoaib, San Jose, CA (US);
Jingjun Cao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shoji Kurakake, San Francisco, CA (US);
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of coordinating the handoff of a mobile carrier between a first access network and a second access network. The method including establishing a contract between a user of a mobile carrier and a hyper operator and attempting a hand off from a first access network that the mobile carrier is currently operating within to a second access network, wherein the attempting includes authenticating at the hyper operator only that the user may have access to the second access network via the contract. Handing off to the second access network if the authenticating is successful.