Pavan Namburi

US Patent:

8289861, Oct 16, 2012

Filed:

Aug 8, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/501452

Inventors:

Ali Asghar Zafer - San Diego CA, US
Srinivasan Balasubramanian - San Diego CA, US
Pavan Namburi - San Diego CA, US
Shrawan Khatri - San Diego CA, US
Srinivas Reddy Mudireddy - San Diego CA, US
Sriram Nagesh Nookala - San Diego CA, US
Venugopal Ramamurthy - San Diego CA, US
Vipin A. Sali - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated - San Diego CA

International Classification:

H04L 1/00

US Classification:

370252, 370329, 370328, 370332

Abstract:

In a method for managing quality of service (QoS) resources during handoff across communication systems having different grades of QoS awareness, an access terminal (AT) determines that handoff has occurred from a QoS unaware system to a QoS aware system. The AT also determines whether there are any allocated, unrequested QoS resources. If one or more allocated, unrequested QoS resources are identified, the AT requests that the QoS aware system release the one or more allocated, unrequested QoS resources. The AT also determines whether there are any requested, unallocated QoS resources. If one or more requested, unallocated QoS resources are identified, the AT requests that the QoS aware system allocate the one or more requested, unallocated QoS resources to the application.