Patent ID: 7792081

Claim:
A method of providing a media independent information service (MIIS) for media independent handover (MIH) in a broadband wireless access system, the method comprising: receiving, by a first lower entity of a mobile station, a MIH information request primitive requesting a set of information elements (IE) provided by the MIIS from a first upper entity of the mobile station; transmitting, from the first lower entity of the mobile station, a MIH information request message comprising an information query list to retrieve the set of information elements to a second lower entity of a base station; receiving, by the first lower entity of the mobile station, a MIH information response message comprising the set of information elements in response to the MIH information request message from the second lower entity of the base station; and transmitting, from the first lower entity of the mobile station, a MIH information confirmation primitive including the set of information elements to the first upper entity of the mobile station, wherein the set of information elements includes at least one of a channel IE representing channel information of a point of attachment (PoA), a quality of service (QoS) IE associated with a QoS level provided by the PoA, and a data rate IE associated with a data transport speed at the PoA, and wherein the set of information elements are obtained by the second lower entity of the base station by transmitting an MIH information indication primitive to a second upper entity of the base station and receiving an MIH information response primitive from the second upper entity of base station.