Patent ID: 9002351
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for switching communication links to a mobile terminal device that is allocated to a local radio area network, the mobile terminal device having a first address for communications when in a first local radio area of the local radio area network, the method comprising: a first mobile terminal device determining whether the mobile terminal device is in the first local radio area to which the first mobile terminal device is allocated or in another radio area that is not within the first local radio area; the first mobile terminal device signaling to an application of the network the determined radio area of the first mobile terminal device, the signaling of the determined radio area by the first mobile terminal device being effected by the first mobile terminal device sending a message to an application of the network, the message being one of: via the application of the network, controlling directly on the first local radio area of the network a communication request addressed by another network to the first mobile terminal device when the first mobile terminal device is determined to be in the first local radio area; and when the first mobile terminal device is not in the first local radio area of the network, performing one of: wherein the second address is a phone number for contacting the first mobile terminal device when the first mobile terminal device is in the second radio area and is no longer in the first local radio area.