Patent ID: 8140089
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a network manager system, at an initiation of the network manager system, that a mobile device currently communicatively coupled to a first wireless network of a plurality of wireless networks, should switch to another wireless network of the plurality of wireless networks; obtaining, by the network manager system, from an information service system, service flow context information associated with a second wireless network of the plurality of wireless networks, wherein the information service system is not the second wireless network, remotely disposed from the network manager system, and accessible to the mobile device, generating, by the network manager system, a message for the mobile device, the message instructing the mobile device to switch to the second wireless network, and including the service flow context information of the second wireless network; and sending, by the network manager system, the message to the mobile device to instruct the mobile device to switch to the second wireless network, the included service flow context information enabling the mobile device to accept or refuse the instruction to switch, without having to access the information service system for the service flow context information associated with the second wireless network.