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Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2008
Applicants:

Venugopal Ramamurthy, San Diego, CA (US);

Shaohong Qu, San Diego, CA (US);

Sriram Nagesh Nookala, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Venugopal Ramamurthy, San Diego, CA (US);

Shaohong Qu, San Diego, CA (US);

Sriram Nagesh Nookala, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method for facilitating inter-technology handoff from a home wireless network comprising comparing a parameter of a home signal to a threshold, wherein the home signal is from the home wireless network where the data session of a persistent always ON application is established; throttling the persistent always ON application; and attempting to acquire a first alternative signal acceptable to the persistent always ON application from a first alternative wireless network using a single RF chain.


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