Patent ID: 8000708

Claim:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of increasing robustness of a communications session between a communications network and a mobile device, the communications session capable of communicating data via multiple channels, the method comprising: providing a first communication channel that facilitates communicating data that forms part of a data stream between the communications network and the mobile device, the first communication channel including a first and second channel portion, wherein the first channel portion is associated with a first geographic region and the second channel portion is associated with a second geographic region; providing a second communication channel that facilitates communicating data that forms part of the data stream between the communications network and the mobile device, the second communication channel including a first and second channel portion, wherein the first channel portion is associated with the first geographic region and the second channel portion is associated with the second geographic region; receiving at the communications network a handoff request to transition communication of the data stream from communicating through one or more of the first channel portions associated with the first region to communicating through one or more of the second channel portions associated with the second region; and maintaining communication of a first part of the data stream over the first portion of the first channel while initiating a handoff within the second channel of a second part of the data stream from the first portion of the second channel to the second portion of the second channel.