US 12,500,848 B2
System and method for pausing packet exchange during roaming
Surya Kantha Rao Kandoti, Bangalore (IN); Venkata Aneel Kumar Inuganti, Bangalore (IN); Darpan Majumder, Bangalore (IN); Mahesh Kumar Edar, Davenagere (IN); Naga Babu Parsi, Bangalore (IN); Mahendiran Balasubramaniyam, Erode (IN); HariPrasad Mosuru Chandrasekhar, Bangalore (IN); and Phanindra Kumar Gollapudi, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Zebra Technologies Corporation, Lincolnshire, IL (US)
Filed by ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Lincolnshire, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/955,284.
Prior Publication US 2024/0106762 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 43/106 (2022.01); H04L 47/56 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/564 (2013.01) [H04L 43/106 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile computing device comprising:
a wireless communications interface configured to connect to a network deployed by a plurality of access points;
a controller for the wireless communications interface, the controller configured to:
detect a roaming condition that initiates a roam from a home access point to a new access point;
in response to the roaming condition, send a pause indicator to a second mobile computing device, the pause indicator configured to cause the second mobile computing device to pause a packet exchange with the mobile computing device;
roam to the new access point; and
resume the packet exchange between the mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device via the new access point.