Patent ID: 7496360

Claim:
A mobile phone for connecting to multiple wireless networks said mobile phone is located in an overlapping cellular network and wireless local area network (WLAN), said mobile phone comprising: a cellular module for handling a call through said cellular network said cellular module detects said cellular network and loads a cellular module profile to configure said mobile phone to send and receive calls on said cellular network; a wireless network module, operably connected to said cellular module, for handling a call through said wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein said cellular module and said wireless network module transmit simultaneously, said wireless network module scans for WLAN signals and matches WLAN parameters with a stored profile that configures said mobile phone to access said WLAN using an authorization procedure that is active on said WLAN and registers said mobile phone with a gateway on a network connected to said WLAN; and said mobile phone detects a WLAN access point and loads an operating WLAN profile for said wireless network module that configures said mobile phone to site-specific WLAN network parameters, wherein said mobile phone is capable of making or receiving calls from both networks, wherein, when said phone receives both said cellular network call and said WLAN call, said phone may switch between the two calls using a call waiting procedure.