Patent ID: 8625548
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication infrastructure supporting packet switched communications, the communication infrastructure comprising: a backbone network supporting the packet switched communications; a first service provider network, communicatively coupled to the backbone network, having a first access point that has a first network address, the first access point operating pursuant to a first wireless protocol; a second service provider network, communicatively coupled to the backbone network, having a second access point that has a second network address, the second access point operating pursuant to a second wireless protocol, the second wireless protocol being communicatively incompatible with the first wireless protocol; an end-point device having wireless transceiver circuitry for communicating with the first access point and the second access point; and the first access point delivers the first network address to the second access point via the end-point device to support the end-point device; and one of the first access point and the second access point further delivers rule information to the other of the first access point and the second access point, wherein the rule information includes a rule parameter to be used in selecting a data delivery pathway to the end-point device in the event that the end-point device becomes detached from one of the first access point and the second access point; and wherein the rule parameter further comprises instructions to transmit only network parameters of the detached one of first access point and second access point, to the end point device via the backbone network and via the non-detached one of the first access point and the second access point and further instructions to store data packets destined for the end point device in the detached one of the first access point and the second access point for delivery to the end point device when the end point device re-associates with the detached one of said first access point or the second access point.