Patent ID: 8817657
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: retrieving, by an access point (AP) in a second network, a list of base stations (BSs) in a first network from multicomm wireless devices having the list without accessing a BS in the first network, wherein the AP requests the list from the multicomm wireless devices in communication with the AP in the second network, wherein each list of BS in the first network is generated from a BS scan of the first network by the multicomm wireless device, wherein the multicomm wireless devices are operable to communicate in the first and the second networks, and the first network uses a wireless standard different from the second network; merging, by the AP in the second network, responses from the multicomm wireless devices to form a merged list of base stations in the first network that are in a vicinity of the AP in the second network; and querying the AP in the second network by other multicomm wireless devices for the merged list of base stations in the first network to enable the other multicomm wireless devices to identify the base stations in the first network that are in the vicinity of the AP without directly communicating with the base stations.