Patent ID: 8457075
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method to process wireless signal components for a mobile wireless access broadband service, comprising: invoking a tune-away component to determine an alternative wireless communications path from at least one of inter-frequency and inter-RAT (radio access technology) communication paths; receiving a BLOB (binary large object) message from an access node; wherein the BLOB message facilitates monitoring a page from a disparate radio access technology (RAT) in a mobile broadband wireless access system; wherein the BLOB message comprises a technology type field indicating the type of the disparate radio access technology; configuring one or more tune-away parameters associated with a tune-away schedule utilized, the one or more tune-away parameters including at least a start frame number identifying a frame in which a first tune-away occurred and a start frame offset indicating a time duration between a beginning of the start frame and the first-tune away; and selecting the alternative wireless communications path based at least in part on the tune-away component and at least one of the one or more tune-away parameters.