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Patent AT-E400976-T1: [Translated] METHOD AND TERMINALS FOR HANDOVER BETWEEN A WIRELESS LARGE-AREA NETWORK AND A WIRELESS LOCAL NETWORK

Published by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Metadata Last Checked: September 07, 2025 | Last Modified: 2025-09-06
A method to be performed by a user terminal with WWAN and WLAN interfaces, comprising steps of: communicating via the WWAN interface; inspecting whether its WLAN interface is available; entering into a WWAN-to WLAN state from a WWAN active state if its WLAN interface is available; said user terminal provides a public server with known network address with its presence information said WWAN-to-WLAN state; and acquiring the network address of another user terminal communicating with said user terminal from said server, sending a WLAN call request to said another user terminal by using said address; entering into WLAN active state after receiving the message for accepting the WLAN call request from said another user terminal.

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