Patent ID: 7936724

Claim:
A method for use in configuring a wireless access point for serving as a handoff indication mechanism in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the handoff indication mechanism being configured to communicate handoff indications in response to mobile communication devices leaving an WLAN coverage region of the WLAN through a radio frequency (RF) coverage region of the wireless access point for mobile device handoff to a wireless wide area network (WWAN), the method comprising the acts of: during a configuration procedure for the wireless access point: receiving, by the wireless access point, RF signals from one or more communication devices, and determining and setting wireless transceiver parameters of the wireless access point for adjusting boundaries of the RF coverage region of the wireless access point; and after the configuration procedure for the wireless access point: providing the wireless access point with the adjusted RF coverage region to serve as part of the handoff indication mechanism in the WLAN, so that the handoff indications are communicated in response to the mobile communication devices leaving the WLAN coverage region through the adjusted RF coverage region for mobile device handoff to the WWAN.