Patent ID: 8837441

Claim:
A wireless communications system comprising: a mobile station configured to operate in a wireless LAN; a wireless LAN access point, through which the mobile station is configured to gain access to the Internet; a mobile switching center of a CDMA2000 over-the-air network; a universal base station controller (USBC) communicatively coupled between the mobile switching center and the wireless LAN, the USBC configured to facilitate call traffic between the CDMA2000 network and the mobile station over the wireless LAN; and a provisioning server, accessible via the Internet, the provisioning server configured to: receive identification data associated with a base station from the mobile station; and assign, using the received identification data, the USBC to be utilized by the mobile station according to a geographic area of the USBC relative to the geographic area of the base station that covers the mobile station, the USBC remotely configured from the base station, and wherein the mobile station is configured to be pre-loaded with a locator for the provisioning server.