Patent ID: 7822861
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A terminal for providing simultaneous connections to multiple communications networks, wherein each connection is set up by a PDP context link, the terminal comprising: a plurality of resources, including at least one memory; a user interface; a selector integrated with the user interface, the selector being configured to receive a user selection of one of the communications networks and a user selection of a connection management function to be performed with respect to the selected communications network; dedicated architectures connected to the user interface, each of the dedicated architectures being configured for communication with at least one of the communications networks; and a dedicated architecture manager configured to provide simultaneous connections to more than one of the communications networks, the dedicated architecture manager being connected to the user interface and being connected between the dedicated architectures and a radio input/output of the terminal, wherein the dedicated architecture manager is configured to assign the dedicated architectures to respective ones of the communications networks, wherein the dedicated architecture manager stores a list of access point names, each access point name corresponding to one of each of the communications networks, and wherein the dedicated architecture manager connects via the PDP context link to each connected communications network to control a state of said link and to adapt at least one resource of the plurality of resources to the connected communications networks; wherein, based on the user selection made through the selector, the dedicated architecture manager communicates with a dedicated architecture assigned to the selected communications network, and communicates with the selected communications network, to perform the selected connection management function, and wherein said user selection of one of the communications networks is based on the list of access point names stored by the dedicated architecture manager.