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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2006
Shmuel Silverman, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Randy L. Ekl, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Colin D. Frank, Park Ridge, IL (US);
Aparna Pandey, Chicago, IL (US);
Ron Rotstein, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher G Ware, Chicago, IL (US);
Shmuel Silverman, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Randy L. Ekl, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Colin D. Frank, Park Ridge, IL (US);
Aparna Pandey, Chicago, IL (US);
Ron Rotstein, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher G Ware, Chicago, IL (US);
Motorola Solutions, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for facilitating a fast handoff for subscribers in a Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) by establishing a hard association with a first entity by sending a hard association request to the first entity and receiving a hard association response in response to the hard association request and establishing a pending association with a second entity by sending a pending association request to a second entity and receiving a pending association response from the second entity. In one embodiment, the pending association with the second entity may be converted to a hard association.