Patent ID: 9408111
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. method for time-sliced associations for make-before-break handover in a communication system, the method comprising: a wireless client monitoring a serving channel of the communication system to determine whether to perform a time-sliced association; performing the time-sliced association with a target cell on a target channel while maintaining an association with a serving cell on the serving channel and while masking the time-sliced association from an operating system of the wireless client such that an internet protocol address associated with the target cell is not available to the operating system or active applications executing on the wireless client, wherein performing the time-sliced association with the target cell comprises performing an association, authentication, and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol process; and transitioning the wireless client from the serving cell to the target cell in response to an indication of degradation in the serving channel, wherein the internet protocol address associated with the target cell is made available to the operating system and the active applications executing on the wireless client in response to the transitioning.