Patent ID: 8971211
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: generating, at a protocol engine at a user equipment configured to operate in a wireless local area network and a cellular network, a message including a request for information representative of a configuration of the wireless local area network, wherein the request is used to at least wake-up a wireless local area network access point serving the wireless local area network in order to facilitate discovery; and transmitting, via encapsulation, the message to a base station to enable the base station to forward the request via encapsulation to another protocol engine at a support node configured to provide, responsive to the request, the information representative of the configuration of the wireless local area network to at least one of the user equipment and the base station, wherein the information representative of the configuration of the wireless local area network enables the user equipment to operate in the wireless local area network, and wherein the base station is configured to operate in the cellular network.