Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Conferencing PSTN gateway methods and apparatus to facilitate heterogeneous wireless network handovers for mobile communication devices
- Patent Title (中): 会议PSTN网关方法和设备,促进移动通信设备的异构无线网络切换
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Application No.: US11534371Application Date: 2006-09-22
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Publication No.: US07986665B2Publication Date: 2011-07-26
- Inventor: Vytautas Robertas Kezys , Terence D. Todd , Mohammed Smadi , Dongmei Zhao
- Applicant: Vytautas Robertas Kezys , Terence D. Todd , Mohammed Smadi , Dongmei Zhao
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
- Current Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo, Ontario
- Agent John J. Oskorep, Esq.
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04J3/16 ; H04J3/22 ; H04M3/42 ; H04M1/00 ; H04L12/16 ; H04L12/66 ; H04Q11/00

Abstract:
A mobile communication device operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN) of a communication network maintains an inter-enterprise voice call via its WLAN interface (e.g. 802.11/VoIP/SIP) with another communication device in the communication network. During the voice call, a handover of the voice call from the WLAN to a wireless wide area network (WWAN) (e.g. GSM/GPRS) is identified. In response to identifying a handover indication, the mobile device causes a request message (e.g. a SIP INVITE message) to be sent over the WWAN to the conferencing gateway for establishing a first connection leg through the WWAN via its WWAN interface with a conference room of the conferencing gateway. The mobile device also causes a re-routing message (e.g. a SIP REFER message) to be sent to the communication device, so that a second connection leg between the communication device and the conference room may be established.
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