Patent ID: 8913587

Claim:
A method for inter-device handoff, comprising: determining a communication with a wireless wide area network (WWAN) is to be handed off from a first communications device, wherein the communication terminates or originates at the first communications device; selecting a second communications device from a plurality of communications devices to which the communication is to be handed off; observing a synchronization period phase; transferring information to the second communications device; using a common identity associated with the WWAN for both the first communications device and the second communications device; and handing off the communication to the second communications device, wherein the first communications device comprises a first WWAN modem and the second communications device comprises a second WWAN modem, and wherein one of the first WWAN modem or the second WWAN modem is used for the communication with the WWAN, wherein the WWAN does not assist with the handing off.