Patent ID: 9591531
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. On a wireless device capable of communicating over a first radio-access network (“RAN”) using a first radio-access technology (“RAT”) and over a second RAN using a second RAT, a method for transferring a data communication session, the method comprising: proxying a data communication session between an application executing on the wireless device and a remote host over the first RAN; requesting data content from the remote host during the data communication session; determining an amount of data content that remains to be received from the remote host during the data communication session; and transferring the data communication session from the first RAN to the second RAN based on the determined amount of data content that remains to be received from the remote host during the data communication session and based on a radio-access condition of the first RAN or of the second RAN.