Methods and apparatus for intelligent wireless technology selection

摘要

Methods and apparatus for intelligently selecting and operating one or more air interfaces of a mobile wireless device for e.g., call setup time reduction. In one embodiment, operation of a high speed cellular interface is selectively adjusted or disabled or switched out when not required so as to minimize call setup times by, e.g., using a different cellular interface to receive pages. In one implementation, the wireless device includes a high-speed cellular interface, a lower-speed cellular interface, and a WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) interface.

主权项

1. A mobile apparatus, comprising:
a cellular wireless transceiver operable in at least a first mode and a second mode; a processor in signal communication with the cellular wireless transceiver; and computerized logic in communication with the processor and configured to cause the mobile apparatus to:
determine an operational state of the mobile apparatus;when the operational state of the mobile apparatus is a first operational state, operate the cellular wireless transceiver in the first mode in accordance with a first set of system selection preferences; andwhen the operational state of the mobile apparatus is a second operational state, operate the cellular wireless transceiver in the second mode in accordance with a second set of system selection preferences,wherein the first and second sets of system selection preferences comprise one or more rules to select between a plurality of radio access technologies, the second set of system selection preferences excluding at least one radio access technology included in the first set of system selection preferences, and the operational state of the mobile apparatus comprises one or more of a display mode, a power mode of the processor, or an association of the mobile apparatus with a wireless local area network (WLAN).