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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2008
Jan Erik Johan Berglund, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jan Erik Johan Berglund, Cupertino, CA (US);
Nokia Siemens Networks Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a wireless transceiver, memory and a controller. The apparatus may be configured to assign, by a first physical access point (AP), a unique transferrable virtual AP address to one associated mobile station address; and perform, in response to a network request for handover, a handover for the associated mobile station address including: transferring the transferrable virtual AP address assigned to the associated mobile station address from a first physical AP to a second physical AP; and providing association state information for the associated mobile station address to the second physical AP.