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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2002
Applicant:
Christian Prehofer, Munich, DE;
Inventor:
Christian Prehofer, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
To achieve optimal selection of new access points for mobile devices () being located in a mobile communication environment (), according to the present invention there is provided a method of assisting handovers for a mobile device in a mobile communication environment. It is proposed to proactively deploy a handover decision mechanism in relation to a handover and in view of the operational context of the mobile device (). This proactively deployed handover decision mechanism is then used to determine a new access point for the mobile device ().