METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDED NETWORK ACCESS NOTIFICATION VIA A BROADBAND ACCESS GATEWAY
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Abstract
A system and method supporting extended network access notification via a broadband access gateway is disclosed. A representative embodiment of the present invention may comprise a wireless interface and may be capable of exchanging multimedia communication between the wireless interface and a broadband network. The gateway may support multimedia communication via access devices that may seamlessly hand off from a wireless wide area network to a personal area network supported by the wireless interface. The hand off may be coordinated by the gateway and the wireless wide area network via the broadband network. A user of an access device may be notified when such a hand off has been automatically initiated, and a user may configure aspects of such hand offs.
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49. A system supporting mobile user access to multimedia information, the system comprising:
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at least one processor in a gateway capable of communicatively coupling to at least one wireless interface and to a broadband network, the at least one processor operable to, at least; selectively communicate multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network; communicate with a plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface, at least a portion of the plurality of access devices also being capable of communication via a wireless wide area network coordinate hand off of multimedia communication by the at least a portion of the plurality of access devices from the wireless wide area network or the at least one wireless interface to the other; and wherein the at least one processor enables the at least a portion of the plurality of access devices to notify a user of the handoff of communication between the wireless wide area network and the at least one wireless interface. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67)
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68. One or more circuits for use in an access device supporting mobile user access to multimedia information through one of a gateway serving a plurality of the access devices and a wireless wide area network, the one or more circuits comprising:
at least one processor capable of communicatively coupling to at least one wireless interface of the gateway and to the wireless wide area network, the at least one processor operable to, at least; communicate multimedia information with one of the wireless wide area network and the at least one wireless interface; coordinate hand off of multimedia communication from the wireless wide area network or the at least one wireless interface to the other; and notify a user of the access device of the handoff of multimedia communication between the wireless wide area network and the at least one wireless interface. - View Dependent Claims (69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86)
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