Patent 7187931 was granted and assigned to Nokia on March, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus are provided for handing over a mobile node from a first access router to a second access router. This may include moving a mobile node from a first geographic location associated with the first access router to a second geographic location associated with the second access router. A request message may then be sent from the second access router to the mobile node. A connectivity report may then be sent from the mobile node to the second access router.