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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2012
Wildfire.exchange, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Santhosh Krishna, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Andrea Goldsmith, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Michael Carlton, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
wildfire.exchange, inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of handing off between a cellular network and a Wi-Fi network is disclosed. A cellular base station of the cellular network is caused to collect information related to the cellular network. A Wi-Fi access point of the Wi-Fi network is caused to collect information related to the Wi-Fi network, wherein the cellular base station and the Wi-Fi access point are co-located. The information related to the cellular network and the information related to the Wi-Fi network are used collectively for determining whether to handoff traffic of a user equipment from a cellular air interface of the cellular network to a Wi-Fi air interface of the Wi-Fi network, or vice versa.