Patent ID: 8331315

Claim:
A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) comprising: a first modem processor configured to establish a wireless communications link using a first technology; a second modem processor configured to establish a wireless communications link using a second technology; and an application processor including: an operating system (OS) configured to run on the application processor, wherein the OS provides an application programming interface (API), and a media independent handover (MIH) client configured to run on the application processor, wherein the MIH client includes a first modem interface configured to communicate with the first modem processor via the API, and a second modem interface configured to communicate with the second modem processor via the API, and wherein the MIH client is configured to discover an MIH server using dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) or domain name system (DNS); wherein the first modem processor is configured to: send a report indicating that a connection is expected to go down in a certain time interval; and send a report indicating that a link parameter has crossed a threshold.