Method and apparatus of selectively tying the opening and closing of EVDO and PPP sessions
View Patent ↗Method, and associated apparatus, for operating a hybrid access terminal operable in a CDMA 1×/EVDO hybrid communication session system. The hybrid access terminal is operable to communicate pursuant to an EVDO communication session and to a PPP communication session. The opening and closing of the communication sessions are independent of one another. Opening of one session does not require opening of another of the sessions. And, closing of one of the sessions does not require closing of the other of the sessions.
1. A method for selectively tying an Evolution Data Only (EVDO) session and a point to point protocol (PPP) session in an always-on hybrid access terminal having a radio that can be turned on and off, said method comprising the steps of:
determining whether the radio is on;
determining whether an EVDO session is open;
determining whether a PPP session is open;
closing, if they are on, both the EVDO session and the PPP session if the radio is determined to be off; and
when the radio is determined to be on and only one of the EVDO session and the PPP session are closed, leaving the other of the EVDO session and PPP session open.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of:
if one of the EVDO session and PPP session are left open in the leaving step, opening the other of the EVDO session and PPP session.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:
if the radio has been determined to be off, subsequently repeating the step of determining whether the radio is on; and
opening the EVDO session and the PPP session if the radio is determined to be on.
4. A method for selectively tying an Evolution Data Only (EVDO) session and a point to point protocol (PPP) session in an always-on hybrid access terminal comprising the steps of:
determining whether only one of the EVDO session and the PPP session is open; and
if only one of the EVDO session and PPP session is open, opening the other of the EVDO Session and PPP session.
5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising the steps of:
closing both the EVDO session and the PPP session when the radio is turned off; and
when the radio is on and only one of the EVDO session and the PPP session are closed, leaving the other of the EVDO session and PPP session open.
6. An always-on hybrid access terminal adapted for selectively tying an Evolution Data Only (EVDO) session and a point to point protocol (PPP) session, the hybrid access terminal having a radio subsystem including a radio adapted to communicate with a network; a radio processor having a digital signal processor and adapted to interact with said radio subsystem; memory; a user interface; a processor adapted to run user applications and interact with the memory, the radio and the user interface and adapted to run applications, the hybrid access terminal comprising:
means for turning the radio on and off;
means for determining whether an EVDO session is open;
means for determining whether a PPP session is open; and
means for closing both the EVDO session and the PPP session when the radio on the hybrid access terminal is turned off;
wherein the always-on hybrid access terminal, upon determining that only one of the EVDO session and PPP session are closed when the radio is on, leaves open the other one of the EVDO session and PPP session.
7. The hybrid access terminal of claim 6 , further comprising:
means for opening the closed one of the EVDO session and the PPP session if it is determined that radio is on and one of the EVDO session and the PPP session is open.
8. The hybrid access terminal of claim 7 , further comprising:
means for opening the EVDO session and the PPP session after the radio has been turned on.