Multiple network mobile device connection management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9380558-B2
Application number	US-201514810431-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2015
Priority date	Apr 6, 2011
Publication date	Jun 28, 2016
Grant date	Jun 28, 2016

Abstract

A mobile wireless device maintains registration on two parallel wireless communication networks that each use different wireless communication protocols. In response to a first connection request received from a first wireless network, the mobile wireless device tunes a single receiver contained therein from the first wireless network to a second wireless network. Subsequently in response to a second connection request received from the second wireless network, the mobile wireless device connects to the second wireless network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of managing connections between a mobile wireless device, which includes a single tunable receiver, and a plurality of wireless networks, the method comprising:
registering the mobile wireless device with a first wireless network;
registering the mobile wireless device with a second wireless network while maintaining registration with the first wireless network;
receiving an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) connection origination mes…

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Mathias Arun G
• Chaudhary Madhusudan
• Shi Jianxiong

Classifications

• H04W36/30

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W60/005 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W68/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W88/06

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/027

  Electricity · mapped topic