Patent · US Expired

Apparatus, and associated method, for facilitating communication handovers in a bluetooth-public-access radio communication system

US6675015B1 · kind B1 · utility

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5References

16Claims

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Assignee

Nokia · FI

Inventors

Peter Anthony Martini · San Diego, US
Matthias Frank · Oakland, US
Rolf Göpffarth · Bonn, DE
Wolfgang Hansmann · Bonn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 15, 1999
Grant date	Jan 6, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 15, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W92/02
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating handover of communication in a BLUEPAC (Bluetooth public access) or other radio communication system. Address and timing information associated with potential target base stations is collected and broadcast to mobile devices during operation of the radio communication system. The information is utilized by the mobile device during handover procedures to facilitate efficient handover of communications to a selected target base. In a further implementation, a base station is provided with separate, dedicated transmitters in which a first set of dedicated transmitters is dedicated for setup operations with a mobile device during handover operation and another set of dedicated transmitters is dedicated for regular data communications.

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