公开(公告)号：SG10201607482WA

公开(公告)日：2017-04-27

申请号：SG10201607482W

申请日：2016-09-08

Applicant: APPLE INC

Inventor： LUCIANO M VERGER ,  AJOY K SINGH ,  CHRISTOPHER M GARRIDO ,  NAJEEB M ABDULRAHIMAN ,  MING JIN ,  ANIL G NAIK ,  DEEPAK CHITLUR LAKSHMAN ,  SRINIVASAN VASUDEVAN ,  DAVID L BIDERMAN ,  GURTEJ SINGH CHANDOK ,  PATRICK MIAUTON ,  ERIC A ALLAMANCHE

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to manage communication sessions to handover between a direct connection at a secondary wireless device and a relayed connection to the secondary wireless device via a primary wireless device. A connection manager of a secondary wireless device can trigger transfer of a communication session based on measurements of performance metrics for the communication session. Upon detection of performance degradation in a local connection or a backhaul connection or both, the connection manager of the secondary wireless device can determine proximity of and/or capabilities for connections of the primary wireless device and instigate transfer of the communication session between different connection types, such as between a direct connection and a relayed connection. The transfer of the communication session can occur without user intervention or in response to input from the user without interrupting or reestablishing the communication session.