Wireless network handover

• US 10,039,044 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2017
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Oh, Hyun Oh
• Primary Examiner(s): Zaidi, Iqbal
• Application Number:
  US15/466,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20170195937A1
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 370328-535, 455552, 455569
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0055 Transmission or use of information for re-establishing the radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0058 Transmission of hand-off measurement information, e.g. measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/10 Reselecting an access point controller
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/14 Reselecting a network or an air interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/32 by location or mobility data, e.g. speed data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A method performed under control of a receiver device may include receiving, from a sender device, connection information regarding a first apparatus that is connected to the sender device via a machine-to-machine network between the sender device and the receiver device; and connecting to the first apparatus based at least in part on the received connection information after the sender device is disconnected from the first apparatus.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a second device communicatively coupled to a second apparatus, connection information regarding a first apparatus communicatively coupled to a first device;

transmitting, by the second device, the received connection information to the second apparatus;

receiving, by the second device, a command from the second apparatus to communicatively decouple from the second apparatus and to communicatively couple to the first apparatus in response to a determination that a signal strength of the first apparatus included in the connection information is higher than a specific value;

communicatively decoupling, by the second device, from the second apparatus in response to receipt of the command from the second apparatus; and

generating, by the second device after the first device is communicatively decoupled from the first apparatus, a network connection between the first apparatus and the second device based on the received connection information regarding the first apparatus,

wherein the first apparatus includes a first base station and the second apparatus includes a second base station.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the connection information comprises receiving the connection information via a machine-to-machine network between the first device and the second device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving the connection information regarding the first apparatus includes receiving at least one of channel information, traffic information, the signal strength, frequency spectrum information, or a location of the first apparatus.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting device information regarding the second device to the first apparatus.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the generating the network connection comprises generating the network connection between the first apparatus and the second device further based on the device information regarding the second device.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the device information regarding the second device includes at least one of an identifier of the second device, a speed of the second device, a movement direction of the second device, or a destination of the second device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting route information of the second device to the first device, wherein the receiving the connection information comprises receiving the connection information based, at least in part, on the route information of the second device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the transmitting the route information of the second device includes transmitting at least one of a movement direction of the second device, a speed of the second device, or a destination of the second device.

9. A second device, comprising:

a receiver to;

receive, from a first device, connection information regarding a first base station communicatively coupled to the first device; and

receive, from a second base station communicatively coupled to the second device, a command to communicatively decouple from the second base station and to communicatively couple to the first base station;

a determination unit, communicatively coupled to the receiver, to;

determine whether the connection information regarding the first base station corresponds to route information of the second device;

in response to a determination that the connection information regarding the first base station does not correspond to the route information of the second device, control the receiver to stop reception of the connection information; and

in response to a determination that the connection information regarding the first base station corresponds to the route information of the second device, control the receiver to continue reception of the connection information; and

a connection control unit, communicatively coupled to the receiver and the determination unit, to;

in response to the determination that the connection information regarding the first base station corresponds to the route information of the second device, select a part of the received connection information based on the route information of the second device;

communicatively decouple from the second base station in response to receipt of the command from the second base station; and

communicatively couple to the first base station based on the selected part of the received connection information after the first device is communicatively decoupled from the first base station.

10. The second device of claim 9, wherein the receiver receives the connection information via a machine-to-machine network between the first device and the second device.

11. The second device of claim 9, wherein the connection information regarding the first base station includes at least one of channel information, traffic information, a signal strength, frequency spectrum information, or a location of the first base station.

12. The second device of claim 9, further comprising a transmitter, communicatively coupled to the receiver and to the determination unit, to transmit the received connection information to the second base station before the connection control unit communicatively couples to the first base station.

13. The second device of claim 12, wherein:

the transmitter transmits the route information of the second device to the first device, and

the receiver receives the connection information based, at least in part, on the route information of the second device.

14. The second device of claim 9, wherein the route information includes at least one of a movement direction of the second device, a speed of the second device, or a destination of the second device.

15. The second device of claim 12, wherein the determination unit further controls the transmitter to return the received connection information to the first device, in response to the determination that the connection information regarding the first base station does not correspond to the route information of the second device.

16. A system, comprising:

a first device;

a second device communicatively coupled to the first device via a wireless network;

a first apparatus communicatively coupled to the first device; and

a second apparatus communicatively coupled to the second device,

wherein the second device;

receives, from the first device, connection information regarding the first apparatus;

transmits the received connection information to the second apparatus;

receives a command from the second apparatus to communicatively decouple from the second apparatus and to communicatively couple to the first apparatus, in response to a signal strength of the first apparatus included in the connection information being higher than a signal strength of the second apparatus;

communicatively decouples from the second apparatus in response to receipt of the command from the second apparatus; and

communicatively couples to the first apparatus based on the received connection information regarding the first apparatus after the first device is communicatively decoupled from the first apparatus, and

wherein the first apparatus includes a first base station and the second apparatus includes a second base station.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the second device receives the connection information via the wireless network between the first device and the second device.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the connection information regarding the first apparatus includes at least one of channel information, traffic information, the signal strength, frequency spectrum information, or a location of the first apparatus.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the second device further transmits device information regarding the second device to the first apparatus through the first device.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the second device communicatively couples to the first apparatus based on the connection information regarding the first apparatus and the device information regarding the second device.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the device information regarding the second device includes at least one of an identifier of the second device, a speed of the second device, a movement direction of the second device, or a destination of the second device.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the second device:

transmits route information of the second device to the first device; and

receives the connection information based, at least in part, on the route information of the second device.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the route information of the second device includes at least one of a movement direction of the second device, a speed of the second device, or a destination of the second device.