Application Layer Integration Into a Multi-Rat Access and Handover Environment

摘要

A wireless communication device communicating with a serving base station in a wireless communication environment may have one or more applications running. When seeking to handover from the serving base station to a target base station, the wireless communication device adjusts the configurations of the applications based on the new communication link properties. Likewise, when an application is loaded that prefers communication link properties that exceeds a current communication link's capabilities, the wireless communication device may seek out and hand over to other communication links. By cooperatively coordinating the functionality of installed applications with communication link properties, the wireless communication device can maintain high levels of device and application functionality.

主权项

1. A wireless communication device in communication with a serving base station, the wireless communication device comprising:
a handover module configured to initiate a handover from the serving base station to a target base station based on a link property of the target base station; and an application module configured to determine a preferred operating state of an application running on the wireless communication device based on the link property, and to configure the application to be in the preferred operating state.