METHOD, AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS, FOR EFFECTUATING HANDOVER OF COMMUNICATIONS IN A BLUETOOTH, OR OTHER, RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method, and associated apparatus, facilitates handover of communications with a mobile Bluetooth device (12) operable to communicate packet data with other Bluetooth devices (12, 26). Handover of communications is effectuated between fixed-infrastructure access points (22) or other mobile Bluetooth devices (12, 26) formed in a scatternet. The device (12, 26) to which communications are to be handed-over becomes a slave to the Bluetooth device (12) with which communications are ongoing, thereby to permit time synchronization thereto.