Patent ID: 8630264

Claim:
A method for use with handover in a wireless system, the wireless system comprising a first base station that communicates with a first gateway and other base stations that communicate with other gateways, said method comprising: determining that a mobile subscriber terminal that is receiving packets addressed to it via the first base station will handover to receive future packets via one of the other base stations; following the handover determination and prior to establishing a connection between said mobile subscriber terminal and said one of the other base stations, receiving from the mobile subscriber terminal at the first gateway a list of candidate base stations; multicasting from the first gateway packets addressed to said mobile subscriber terminal to the first base station and to the candidate base stations via respective gateways associated with the candidate base stations; establishing a connection between said mobile subscriber terminal and a second base station, said second base station being one of the candidate base stations; and following establishing the connection between said mobile subscriber terminal and said second base station, forwarding from the second base station to said mobile subscriber terminal the packets addressed to said mobile subscriber terminal.