Patent ID: 8078171

Claim:
A system, comprising one or more processors; and one or more storage media coupled to the one or more processors, and having stored therein a plurality of programming instructions to be operated by the one or more processors to configure the system to facilitate a mobile station (MS) to move from a second wireless network of a second wireless network type to a first wireless network of a first wireless network type, the first and second wireless network types being of different network types, wherein the system is configured to: receive from a second radio access technology (RAT) device of the second wireless network, a request for a current context of the MS and information associated with the first wireless network, the second RAT device requesting for the current context and information associated with the first wireless network in response to a request to hand off the MS from the second wireless network to the first wireless network; receive, from the second RAT device, updates of radio measurements of the MS to facilitate the system to maintain current radio measurements of the MS; select, based on the current radio measurements, a first RAT device from a plurality of RAT devices of the first wireless network; provide, from a cross wireless network type inter-RAT server in response to said receiving of the request from the second RAT device, the current context of the MS and information associated with the first wireless network, including information associated with the first RAT device, to the second RAT device to enable the second RAT device to accept the handoff request; receive from the first RAT device of the first wireless network, another request for the current context of the mobile station, the first RAT device requesting for the current context of the MS in response to receiving a request to hand off the MS from the second RAT device to the first RAT device received from the second RAT device; and provide, from the cross wireless network type inter-RAT server, the current context of the MS to the first RAT device to enable the first RAT device to accept the request to handoff, wherein the current context is provided to the first RAT device subsequent to providing the current context to the second RAT device.