ACTIVE COMMUNICATION SESSION HANDOVER BETWEEN DIRECT AND RELAYED CONNECTIONS

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method for managing connections for an active communication session by a secondary wireless device, the method comprising:
by the secondary wireless device: engaging in a communication session with a remote device via a non-cellular wireless network, wherein the communication session directly terminates on the secondary wireless device; determining performance of the non-cellular wireless network; and when the performance of the non-cellular wireless network does not satisfy a performance criterion and a primary wireless device is in proximity to the secondary wireless device, providing an indication to the primary wireless device to cause the primary wireless device to transfer the communication session to terminate on the primary wireless device, wherein packets for the communication session are relayed via the primary wireless device to and from the secondary wireless device.