Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tript Singh Lamba

Thomas W Kuehnel

Shai Guday

Vladimir Holostov

Naile Daoud

Vishal Vikram Ghotge

John David Bruner

Mahendra D Sekaran

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Dhigha D Sekaran

Jeffrey B Kay

Amey Parandekar

Anish Desai

Frank Stephen Serdy, Jr

Reid Joseph Kuhn

John D Skovron

Vijay Kishen Hampapur Parthasarathy

Ray Froelich

Eugen Pajor

Ramkumar Natarajan

Bayo Olatunji

Andrew Peter Schoorl

A mobile device utilizes a two-stage dialing solution when roaming on a visited mobile operator (MO) network to implement centralized routing so that a home network portion of a hybrid network is inserted into the path of outbound calls. A remote centralized routing (CR) service interoperates with a CR client on the mobile device. When a call is initiated to a remote party, the CR client calls into an arbitrary roaming routing number that is terminated in the home network. Once the call is connected between the mobile device and home network, the CR client sends a dialing string that includes a destination number of the remote party. The CR service calls the destination number and then bridges the calls to the mobile device and remote party to establish an end-to-end call path between the local and far ends of the call that traverses the home network.

Centralized routing in hybrid networks

Embodiments enable prioritization and selection of network access points (NAP) by a computing device using NAP attribute values. The computing device obtains the attribute values based on a location of the computing device and/or proximate NAPs detected by the computing device. The obtained attribute values are compared to a state of the computing device (e.g., sensor values), user preferences, or other criteria to select at least one of the NAPs for connection with the computing device. In some embodiments, a user of the computing device is presented with a list of Wi-Fi access points ranked according to relevance to the computing device and/or user.

Service-assisted network access point selection

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Tript Singh Lamba