Patent ID: 8270980
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: an interface to communicate with mobile units; a processing unit to determine a need for a mobile unit having more than one simultaneously ongoing service connections on at least one first access network to execute a handover and to send a handover command to the mobile unit through the interface, the handover command instructing the mobile unit to handover part of the simultaneously ongoing service connections to a new, second access network, where said processing unit is further configured to select as the new second access network an access network offering higher bandwidth than the first access network for an Internet Protocol based connection, and to select as the new second access an access network offering lower bandwidth than the first access network for a speech connection, and where the handover command instructs the mobile unit to handover just the Internet Protocol based connection or just the speech connection to the selected new second access network and to retain the other simultaneously ongoing service connection on the first access network.