Patent ID: 8577369

Claim:
A system for facilitating handoff of communications with a user device between a first communication network having a first domain technology, and a second communication network having a second domain technology different from the first domain technology, the system comprising: an anchor point, the anchor point establishing a first service flow with the first communication network, and a second service flow with the second communication network, and the anchor point generating a triggering event indicating to the user device that the user device is approaching a network boundary, the anchor point facilitating the establishment of an ad-hoc conference call between the user device and a remote party prior to the handoff; a handoff device, the handoff device receiving at least one handoff parameter for determining a handoff operation of the user device from the first communication network to the second communication network, the handoff device operating in a pre-handoff stage for initiating the second service flow to an agent of the anchor point and communicating at least an address of the remote party during service establishment between the user device and the remote party; and wherein the triggering event is a temporary signaling service set identifier (SSID) signal including network configuration information; and wherein a power profile of the temporary SSID signal overlaps a power profile associated with the first network and overlaps a power profile associated with the second network.