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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2010
Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, San Diego, CA (US);
Sanjiv Nanda, Ramona, CA (US);
Srinivasan Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US);
Chandrasekhar Therazhandur Sundarraman, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Hans Rauber, San Diego, CA (US);
Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, San Diego, CA (US);
Sanjiv Nanda, Ramona, CA (US);
Srinivasan Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US);
Chandrasekhar Therazhandur Sundarraman, San Diego, CA (US);
Peter Hans Rauber, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A heterogeneous communication system enables femto Access Points (APs) to advertise handoff related information on a first Radio Access Technology (RAT), such as for receipt by a multi mode mobile device (e.g., a mobile device capable of operation on a plurality of RATs), wherein the handoff related information permits the multi mode mobile device to identify the femto access point on a second RAT. The multi mode mobile device can be connected to a macro node (e.g., a macro base station, an evolved Base Node, etc.) using the first RAT via a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) air-interface (e.g., 1×, HRPD, eHRPD), while independently reading/decoding overhead messages on the second RAT for connection thereto (e.g., connection to the femto access point on the second RAT.) The second RAT can be another WWAN, a Wireless Local Access Network (WLAN) or a Personal Access Network.