Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adaptive beamforming configuration methods and apparatus for wireless access points serving as handoff indication mechanisms in wireless local area networks
- Patent Title (中): 用于无线接入点的自适应波束成形配置方法和装置用作无线局域网中的切换指示机制
-
Application No.: US13070647Application Date: 2011-03-24
-
Publication No.: US08121648B2Publication Date: 2012-02-21
- Inventor: Vytautas Robertas Kezys
- Applicant: Vytautas Robertas Kezys
- 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

Abstract:
In one illustrative example, a technique for use in operating a wireless access point (AP) for serving as a handoff indication mechanism in a first wireless network is described. The handoff indication mechanism is configured to communicate handoff indications in response to mobile devices leaving coverage of the first wireless network, via an RF coverage region of the AP, for mobile device handoff to a second wireless network. The AP is provided in an ingress or egress region of the first wireless network, where it receives RF signals from one or more communication devices and determines and sets wireless transceiver parameters for adjusting boundaries of its RF coverage region. The AP also operates with the adjusted RF coverage region to serve as part of the handoff indication mechanism in the first wireless network, so that the handoff indications are communicated in response to the mobile devices leaving coverage of the first wireless network, via the adjusted RF coverage region, for mobile device handoff to the second wireless network.
Public/Granted literature
Information query