PERSONALISABLE HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK HANDOVER SCHEME
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Abstract
A communications system comprises a plurality of local area networks (LAN) within a wide area network (WAN), in which local area networks are associated with a subscriber. A LAN has a different mode of communication from the mode of communication within the WAN. A subscriber has a user identity which is directly or indirectly associated with both a LAN (their home network) and with the WAN, for example, a GSM cellular communications network. When a mobile communications device requests handover or completes handover to the wireless home LAN of a subscriber or from the subscriber'"'"'s wireless LAN to the WAN, the handover event triggers an action to be performed. The action may be the generation of an alert and/or the activation of one or more devices/systems in accordance with a configuration scheme set up by the subscriber. The communications device may be the subscriber'"'"'s mobile communication device or the communications device of another user which is capable of operating in both a wireless LAN mode and in a WAN mode.
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64 Claims
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40. A heterogeneous handover scheme for a communications system comprising a plurality of wireless local area networks and a wireless wide area network and a mobile communications device having an identity which is directly or indirectly associated with a local wireless area network and with the wireless wide area network, said scheme comprising:
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the mobile communications device performing a heterogeneous handover operation between differing networks of said communications system, the handover operation automatically triggering the performance of one or more actions configurable by a user having an identity associated with a wireless local area network in said communications system, said wireless local area network being associated with a mobile communications device, characterized by;
one or more actions being configured to be implemented by a device other than the mobile communications device associated with said wireless local area network. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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46. A communications system comprising a plurality of wireless local area networks and a wireless wide area network and a mobile communications device having a identity which is directly or indirectly associated with both a wireless local area network and the wireless wide area network, the communications system being arranged to implement a heterogeneous handover scheme when said mobile communications device performs a handover operation between differing networks in said communications system, said handover operation triggering one or more actions configurable by a user associated with a wireless local area network in said communications system from which or to which handover is being requested, said wireless local area network being associated with a mobile communications device,
characterized by: - the one or more actions being configured for implementation by a device other than the mobile communications device associated with said wireless local area network.
- View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 54, 55, 56, 63)
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50. Local area network apparatus providing a wireless home local area network in a communications system comprising a plurality of wireless local area networks and a wireless wide area network and a mobile communications device having a identity which is directly or indirectly associated with both a local area network and the wide area network, the communications system being arranged to implement a heterogeneous handover scheme when said mobile communications device performs a handover operation between differing networks of said communications system, the handover operation triggering one or more actions which are configured by a user associated with said local area network in said communications system from which or to which handover is being requested, wherein the local area network apparatus comprises:
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a receiver arranged to receive notification of an event associated with said handover operation; a processor arranged to determine an identity associated with said mobile communications device; a processor arranged to associate said identity with one or more actions, wherein an action is configurable by a user of said wireless local area network using an appropriate device having means to interface with said local area network apparatus, wherein said wireless local area network is associated with a mobile communications device and wherein an action is configured to be implemented by a device other than the device associated with said wireless local area network. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 64)
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57. A method of remotely controlling apparatus using a communications system comprising a plurality of wireless local area networks and a wide area network, the method comprising:
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detecting a heterogeneous handover request generated by a mobile communications device having two modes of communication, one mode being associated with a local area network of said communications system, the other mode being associated with the wide area network of said communications system, said heterogeneous handover request message being generated when said mobile communications device requests a handover from the wide area network to the local area network or vice versa; determining identity information associated with the mobile communications device generating said handover request; determining if said identity information conforms with one or more authentication criteria for said communications system; associating said handover request message with a set of one or more apparatus actions determined by a user as actions to be performed in the event a handover request message is detected in said communications system; and causing said set of actions to be performed by said apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59)
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60. A system for remotely activating apparatus located within a wireless local area network of a communications system, the communications system comprising a plurality of wireless local area networks and a wide area network, and further comprising:
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a store for storing a set of one or more apparatus actions to be performed in the event a heterogeneous handover is detected; a handover event detector for detecting a handover event of a mobile communications device having two modes of communication, one mode being associated with a local area network of said communications system, the other mode being associated with the wide area network of said communications system; a function looker-up arranged to perform a look-up function to determine the set of one or more apparatus actions to be performed; and an action causer arranged to cause said set of actions to be performed by said apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (61, 62)
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Specification