Patent ID: 9294903
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: conducting, at an apparatus utilizing at least one of a processor or a communication interface, device discovery utilizing a first radio technology to discover at least one wireless device; causing communication, by the apparatus utilizing at least one of the processor or the communication interface, of handover information over the first radio technology in accordance with a generic attribute protocol of a Bluetooth communication protocol with the at least one discovered wireless device, wherein the generic attribute protocol of the Bluetooth communication protocol comprises one or more attributes for facilitating handover to the second radio technology including a handover request characteristic that is set to a predefined value to indicate a request to handover to the second radio technology and an address to be utilized in conjunction with the second radio technology; 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 over the first radio technology in accordance with the generic attribute protocol of the Bluetooth communication protocol that specifies the handover.