Patent ID: 7676223

Claim:
A method for controlling a communications session with a mobile device in a distributed communication system that includes a plurality of base station routers configured to provide wireless connectivity to the mobile device, comprising: selecting a subset of the plurality of base station routers as primary or secondary agents for the mobile device; selecting one base station router from the subset of the plurality of base station routers to act as a primary agent for the mobile device and the remainder of the base station routers in the subset to act as secondary agents, wherein the primary agent receives information from a network and controls operation of the secondary agents such that one secondary agent at a time can transmit the received information to the mobile device; delivering, from the primary agent to each of the secondary agents, substantially similar data representative of the information received from the network; selecting a first one of the secondary agents as a first serving secondary agent to perform all wireless communications with the mobile device until a second serving secondary agent is selected, the first serving secondary agent transferring the data to the mobile device during the communications session; and selecting a second one of the secondary agents as the second serving secondary agent to communicate with the mobile device in replacement of the first serving secondary agent, the second serving secondary agent performing all wireless communications with the mobile device until a third serving secondary agent is selected, wherein said wireless communications comprise transferring the data to the mobile device during the communications session.