Patent ID: 9445312
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing an enhanced mobile hand-off scheme, the method comprising: launching an application, on a mobile device, supported by mobile wireless communications between the mobile device and mobile wireless access networks, wherein the application is associated with a quality of service (QoS) constraint; providing, by the mobile device, the QoS constraint to a dynamic policy function; receiving, by the mobile device, a handoff threshold profile created by the dynamic policy function, the handoff threshold profile being used by the mobile device to trigger an access network handoff operation, on the mobile device, and the handoff threshold profile being based on at least: receiving, by the mobile device pursuant to a change-based subscription service, an updated handoff threshold profile generated by the dynamic policy function in response to a change to the network policies; and scanning, by the mobile device, the updated handoff threshold profile; and triggering, by the mobile device, in response to scanning the updated handoff threshold profile, a mobile handoff for the mobile device from a current access network to a target access network, wherein each of the current and target access networks is selected from the group consisting of: