Patent ID: 9326208
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A wireless communication device configured to determine when to trigger a handover of a communication session from a first access network to a second access network, the wireless communication device comprising: a first wireless transceiver configured to transmit outgoing traffic and to receive incoming traffic communicated, using the first access network, during an active communication session; a traffic analysis module coupled to the first wireless transceiver and configured to: determine, for the active communication session, a set of outgoing traffic statistics for the outgoing traffic; determine, for the active communication session, a set of incoming traffic statistics for the incoming traffic; analyze the incoming and outgoing traffic statistics; determine when to trigger a handover of the active communication session from the first access network to the second access network based on the analysis of the incoming and outgoing traffic statistics; wherein the traffic analysis module is further configured to: wherein analyzing the incoming and outgoing traffic statistics comprises comparing the incoming traffic statistics to expected traffic statistics, which are derived from the outgoing traffic statistics.