Patents by Inventor Chad M. Fors

Chad M. Fors has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for a target-initiated handoff from a source cellular wireless network to a target non-cellular wireless network
    Patent number: 6931249
    Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for handoff from a cellular wireless network to a non-cellular wireless network (WLAN, e.g.), the present application describes an access gateway (214) and a dual mode mobile station (201) that enable such handoffs. The MS provides information to the access gateway so that it can initiate a handoff with the serving cellular MSC (251). By triggering handoffs in this manner, cellular networks need not have special information about non-cellular networks to support handoffs. Instead, dual mode MSs can determine when a handoff to a non-cellular network is preferred and request a handin (302) from the non-cellular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad M. Fors, Raymond M. Liss, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Venkat Gopikanth
  • Method and apparatus for a source-initiated handoff from a source cellular wireless network to a target non-cellular wireless network
    Patent number: 6904029
    Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for handoff from a cellular wireless network to a non-cellular wireless network (WLAN, e.g.), the present application describes an access gateway (214) and a dual mode mobile station (201) that enable such handoffs. Dual mode MSs can determine when a handoff to a non-cellular network is preferred and request a handin (302) from the non-cellular network. The access gateway provides information to the MS (304) so that it can initiate a handoff through the serving cellular network. Triggering handoffs in this manner, allows cellular networks to handle handoffs to non-cellular networks in much the same way they handle inter-MSC handoffs today, i.e., source initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad M. Fors, Venkat Gopikanth, Raymond M. Liss, Robert T. Love, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur
  • Method and apparatus for a target-initiated handoff from a source cellular wireless network to a target non-cellular wireless network
    Publication number: 20040203788
    Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for handoff from a cellular wireless network to a non-cellular wireless network (WLAN, e.g.), the present application describes an access gateway (214) and a dual mode mobile station (201) that enable such handoffs. The MS provides information to the access gateway so that it can initiate a handoff with the serving cellular MSC (251). By triggering handoffs in this manner, cellular networks need not have special information about non-cellular networks to support handoffs. Instead, dual mode MSs can determine when a handoff to a non-cellular network is preferred and request a handin (302) from the non-cellular network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Chad M. Fors, Raymond M. Liss, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, Venkat Gopikanth
  • Method and apparatus for a source-initiated handoff from a source cellular wireless network to a target non-cellular wireless network
    Publication number: 20040146021
    Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for handoff from a cellular wireless network to a non-cellular wireless network (WLAN, e.g.), the present application describes an access gateway (214) and a dual mode mobile station (201) that enable such handoffs. Dual mode MSs can determine when a handoff to a non-cellular network is preferred and request a handin (302) from the non-cellular network. The access gateway provides information to the MS (304) so that it can initiate a handoff through the serving cellular network. Triggering handoffs in this manner, allows cellular networks to handle handoffs to non-cellular networks in much the same way they handle inter-MSC handoffs today, i.e., source initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Chad M. Fors, Venkat Gopikanth, Raymond M. Liss, Robert T. Love, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur