Patent ID: 7684370

Claim:
A method for use in configuring a wireless access point for serving as a handoff indication mechanism in a wireless local area network (WLAN) for mobile device handoff between the WLAN and a wireless wide area network (WWAN), the method comprising the acts of: during a configuration procedure for the wireless access point: receiving, by the wireless access point, radio frequency (RF) signals from a plurality of communication devices; the plurality of communication devices including a first group of communication devices positioned at locations of undesired RF coverage outside of an RF coverage boundary of a WLAN coverage region of one or more other wireless access points of the WLAN; the plurality of communication devices including a second group of communication devices positioned at locations of desired RF coverage around the RF coverage boundary of the WLAN coverage region; determining and setting wireless transceiver parameters of the wireless access point for adjusting boundaries of an RF coverage region of the wireless access point, such that RF signal coverage of the first group of communication devices is minimized but RF signal coverage of the second group of communication devices is maximized; and after the configuration procedure: providing the wireless access point with the RF coverage region to serve as part of the handoff indication mechanism in the WLAN for mobile device handoff between the WLAN and the WWAN.