Patents Examined by Sharad Ramfuris
  • Method, and associated apparatus, for effectuating handover of communications in a bluetooth, or other, radio communication system
    Patent number: 6834192
    Abstract: A method, and associated apparatus, facilitates handover of communications with a mobile Bluetooth device operable to communicate packet data with other Bluetooth devices. Handover of communications is effectuated between fixed-infrastructure access points or other mobile Bluetooth devices formed in a scatternet. The device to which communications are to be handed-over becomes a slave to the Bluetooth device with which communications are ongoing, thereby to permit time synchronization thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Fujio Watanabe, Phong Nguyen, Takako Sanda