Data session continuity between wireless networks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8983530-B2
Application number	US-201314102766-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2013
Priority date	Jul 23, 2012
Publication date	Mar 17, 2015
Grant date	Mar 17, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods to provide data session continuity between wireless networks. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a request to create a data session for a wireless communication device exchanging communications with a wireless local area network via a wireless access point. The method further provides determining an access point identifier for the wireless access point and selecting a control system for a cellular communication network of a plurality of cellular communication networks based on the access point identifier. The method further provides anchoring the data session to the control system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of operating a wireless communication system, comprising:
in a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) network, receiving an internet access request from a wireless communication device and responsively transferring an anchor request to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network;
in the LTE network, receiving the anchor request and responsively processing a WiFi network identifier to select an LTE Packet Gateway (PGW) and obtaining an internet address for the wireless…

Assignees

• Sprint Communications Co

Inventors

• Xue Wen
• Ramamurthy Suryanarayanan
• Cole Jay Douglas

Classifications

• H04W36/0022 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M3/00

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/00

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/00222

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/00835

  Electricity · mapped topic