Method and system for intersystem wireless communication session arbitration
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- (a) a mobile station operating at a given location at which the mobile station can communicate according to a first protocol via a first-access system and at which the mobile station can communicate according to a wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) protocol via a second-access system; and
(b) while the mobile station is operating at the given location, the mobile station arbitrating between communicating voice content according to the first protocol via the first-access system and communicating voice content according to the WLAN protocol encapsulating the first protocol via the second-access system.
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Abstract
A mobile station provides arbitration and hand-off between two or more differently formatted computer and/or telecommunication networks. To facilitate the mobile station arbitration and hand-off, the mobile station operates at a given location in which it can communicate according to a first protocol via a first-access system and at which it can communicate according to a second protocol via a second-access system. At the given location, the mobile station arbitrates between communicating real-time media according to the first protocol via the first-access system and communicating real-time media according to the second protocol over the first protocol via the second-access system.
To carry out the arbitration, mobile station may be provisioned with one or more arbitration policies. Based on these arbitration policies, the mobile station commits resources to carry on a communication session via a selected access system. When the arbitration policies comprise a preferred-network attribute, such as a preferred-network threshold, the mobile station arbitration may be performed by a comparison function. This comparison function may include ascertaining a preferred-network metric and communicating voice content according to the first protocol via the first-access system when the preferred-network metric surpasses the preferred-network threshold or communicating voice content according to the second protocol over the first protocol via the second-access system when the preferred-network metric does not surpass the preferred-network threshold.
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40 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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(a) a mobile station operating at a given location at which the mobile station can communicate according to a first protocol via a first-access system and at which the mobile station can communicate according to a wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) protocol via a second-access system; and
(b) while the mobile station is operating at the given location, the mobile station arbitrating between communicating voice content according to the first protocol via the first-access system and communicating voice content according to the WLAN protocol encapsulating the first protocol via the second-access system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 38)
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26. A mobile station comprising at least one logic module having logic to:
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(a) operate at a given location at which the mobile station can communicate according to a first protocol via a first-access system and at which the mobile station can communicate according to a wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) protocol via a second-access system; and
(b) arbitrate between communicating voice content according to the first protocol via the first-access system and communicating voice content according to the WLAN protocol encapsulating the first protocol via the second-access system when the mobile station is at the given location. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 39)
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32. A method comprising:
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(a) a mobile station operating at a given location at which the mobile station can communicate according to a first protocol via a first-access system and at which the mobile station can communicate according to a wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) protocol via a second-access system; and
(b) while the mobile station is operating at the given location, the mobile station arbitrating between communicating real-time media according to the first protocol via the first-access system and communicating real-time media according to the WLAN protocol encapsulating the first protocol via the second-access system. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40)
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