Patent ID: 8514778
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for wireless communications, comprising: operating a wireless communication system that includes multiple radio access technologies (RATs) to provide wireless services to multiple mobile devices, wherein the multiple RATs include a first RAT and a second RAT; providing an enhanced overhead message protocol (OMP) instance in a wireless sector to broadcast communication messages; providing an enhanced inter-RAT OMP instance for a mobile device that is in communication with the wireless communication system via the first RAT, wherein the enhanced inter-RAT OMP instance includes an inactive state and a tunnel active state; operating the enhanced inter-RAT OMP instance to switch from the inactive state to the tunnel active state in response to a message associated with the second RAT; and using the enhanced inter-RAT OMP instance in the tunnel active state to send one or more overhead messages via a communication tunnel to the mobile device.