Patent ID: 7343160

Claim:
A mobile network relay device operable to facilitate a wireless device handoff that includes existing wireless communications, wherein the handoff of the wireless device and existing communications occurs between an intra-vehicular wireless network and a first extravehicular wireless network, comprising: a first wireless interface operable to communicate with a wireless device over the intra-vehicular wireless network, the wireless device operable to communicate through a second extravehicular wireless network; a second wireless interface operable to communicate with the first extravehicular wireless network; and a vehicular mountable relay that communicatively couples the first wireless interface and the second wireless interface and that routes communications between the wireless device and the first extravehicular wireless network, wherein a coverage area of the intra-vehicular wireless network overlaps with a coverage area of the second extravehicular wireless network; and the vehicular mountable relay controls and services the wireless device handoff between the second extravehicular wireless network and the first extravehicular wireless network.