Patent ID: 8427975

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a measurement trigger condition with user equipment while the user equipment is communicating with a femtocell over a wireless wide area network (WWAN) link on a first WWAN channel according to a first communications mode at a data rate in satisfaction of a rate target and at a data quality in satisfaction of a quality target; and switching the user equipment to communicate according to a second communications mode in response to detecting the measurement trigger, communicating according to the second communications mode comprising: interspersing measurement blocks with data frames, such that the user equipment communicates with the femtocell over the WWAN link on the first WWAN channel during the data frames and performs measurements on at least a second WWAN channel during the measurement blocks; compressing communications with the femtocell over the WWAN link on the first WWAN channel by reducing at least one of the data rate or the data quality; and communicating supplemental data between the user equipment and an out-of-band (OOB) femto-proxy over an OOB link substantially concurrently with communicating with the femtocell over the WWAN link, such that communicating the supplemental data at least partially compensates for the reducing at least one of the data rate or the data quality.