Patent ID: 8391153

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: one or more computer processors; and logic encoded in one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to: facilitate communications between a plurality of access technologies requiring different radio resource control functions, wherein the apparatus provides information sent from an updated radio resource manager to a base transceiver station to provide radio control for one or more access terminals, and said apparatus facilitates one or more communications of media with the one or more access terminals through one or more bearer paths flowing through the apparatus, the one or more bearer paths flowing from the base transceiver station through a radio bearer to the apparatus without going through the updated radio resource manager, wherein the updated radio resource manager is decoupled from one or more bearer paths and not co-located with the apparatus, wherein the updated radio resource manager provides radio resource control functions for communicating media through the one or more bearer paths using the plurality of access technologies requiring different radio resource control functions, the radio resource control functions being provided through a control path from the base transceiver station through the updated radio resource manager to the apparatus without going through the radio bearer.