MANAGING WIRELESS LOCAL AREA, NETWORK SERVICE BASED ON A LOCATION OF A MULTI-MODE PORTABLE COMMUNICATION DEVICE IN A WLAN - WWAN NETWORK

摘要

A wireless access point monitors a wireless wide area network (WWAN) reverse link (RL) channel assigned to a multi-mode wireless communication device identified by a wireless wide area network (WWAN) as positioned proximate a geographical area at least partially including a wireless local area network (WLAN) service area of the access point. The access point sends a device proximity message to the WWAN based on a WWAN RL signal transmitted by the multi-mode wireless communication device and received at the access point. The device proximity message may indicate a request to perform a WLAN acquisition procedure to establish WLAN service from the access point. ® KIPO & WIPO 2009