METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING HANDOVER UTILIZING A PREDEFINED ATTRIBUTE PROTOCOL
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- conducting, at an apparatus, device discovery utilizing a first radio technology to discover at least one wireless device;
causing communication, by the apparatus, of handover information in accordance with a predefined attribute protocol of the first radio technology with the at least one discovered wireless device; and
performing handover to a second radio technology for communicating with the at least one discovered wireless device over the second radio technology in accordance with the handover information communicated utilizing the first radio technology that specifies the handover.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to permit device discovery to be conducted utilizing a first radio technology, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) technology, and to then handover to a second radio technology, e.g., a second radio technology having a greater bandwidth than the first radio technology. In the context of a method, device discovery is conducted utilizing a first radio technology. The method also causes communication of handover information in accordance with a predefined attribute protocol of the first radio technology. The method also performs handover to a second radio technology, such as Bluetooth technology or a wireless local area network technology, in accordance with the handover information communicated utilizing the first radio technology.
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21 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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conducting, at an apparatus, device discovery utilizing a first radio technology to discover at least one wireless device; causing communication, by the apparatus, of handover information in accordance with a predefined attribute protocol of the first radio technology with the at least one discovered wireless device; and performing handover to a second radio technology for communicating with the at least one discovered wireless device over the second radio technology in accordance with the handover information communicated utilizing the first radio technology that specifies the handover. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least; conduct device discovery utilizing a first radio technology to discover at least one wireless device; causing communication of handover information in accordance with a predefined attribute protocol of the first radio technology with the at least one discovered wireless device; and performing handover to a second radio technology for communicating with the at least one discovered wireless device over the second radio technology in accordance with the handover information communicated utilizing the first radio technology that specifies the handover. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code portions stored therein, the computer-executable program code portions comprising program code instructions for:
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conducting device discovery utilizing a first radio technology to discover at least one wireless device; causing communication of handover information in accordance with a predefined attribute protocol of the first radio technology with the at least one discovered wireless device; and performing handover to a second radio technology for communicating with the at least one discovered wireless device over the second radio technology in accordance with the handover information communicated utilizing the first radio technology that specifies the handover. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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