Patent ID: 7257386

Claim:
Apparatus for transferring data from a network to a mobile device comprising: a transmitter arrangement having differing narrow and wide bandwidth links for transmitting data from the network to the mobile device, the transmitter arrangement being arranged for notifying, via the narrow bandwidth link, the mobile device of data awaiting transfer thereto from the network, the transmitter arrangement being arranged for transferring the data to the mobile device via the wide bandwidth link and the narrow bandwidth, the wide bandwidth link having a shorter range than the range of the narrow bandwidth link; and an arrangement for transferring the data from the network to the mobile device and for causing transfer of the data, via the wide bandwidth link, to the mobile device unless the mobile device is outside of the range of the wide bandwidth link, in which case the data are selectively immediately transferred to the mobile device via the narrow bandwidth or are subsequently transferred to the mobile device via the wide bandwidth link when the mobile device is in range of the wide bandwidth link.