Patent ID: 8116810

Claim:
A method for transmitting and receiving control information of a multi-mode mobile subscriber station (MSS) including at least two interfaces, the method comprising: transmitting, from a media independent handover (MIH) module of the multi-mode MSS, first information used for requesting information associated with a new access point, to a remote entity providing information service via a MIH module of a current access point; and receiving, at the MIH module of the multi-mode MSS, second information from the remote entity via the MIH module of the current access point, wherein the second information includes a network type of the new access point and parameters representing system information depending on the network type of the new access point, and wherein the parameters include at least one of a downlink channel descriptor (DCD)/uplink channel descriptor (DCD) of an IEEE 802.16 network, a system information block (SIB) of a 3GPP network, or a system parameters message of a 3GPP2 network.