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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2017
Applicant:

Open Invention Network Llc, Durham, NC (US);

Inventor:

Martin Wieland, Munich, DE;

Assignee:

Open Invention Network LLC, Durham, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 84/22 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/22 (2009.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01); H04W 4/60 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/026 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01); H04L 49/351 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04W 4/003 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01); H04W 4/22 (2013.01); H04W 4/60 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/025 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/22 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 63/166 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an electrical device and method of automatically searching for and connecting to known or unknown available public communication infrastructure and/or devices in the vicinity using a multi-layer communication model. Each layer may include binding information for local available communication methods and shareable hardware devices, a routing table, and, if applicable, one or more logon profiles for service providers. Communication layers may be built by searching for available public communication infrastructure and/or devices in the vicinity by actively sending out connection requests to all addressable destinations along the available transport medium. Each node is able to access and use the communication infrastructure of each other node. Switching between layers as they become inoperable and/or become available without any user interaction required is also possible.


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