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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
May. 18, 2015
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Lily Zhu, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Xin He, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Jignesh S. Panchal, Somerset, NJ (US);
Andrew E. Youtz, Princeton, NJ (US);
Kyriaki Konstantinou, New York, NY (US);
Joseph Peter Kuhn, III, Hamilton, NJ (US);
Xin Wang, Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
When connected to an alternate network, a user device may search for a preferred network when the user device is actively transmitting traffic via the alternate network. As such, the user device may search for, and potentially locate, the preferred network faster than when the user device waits to search for the preferred network after becoming idle. While active, the user device may search for the preferred network for a relatively short duration, in order to limit the amount of time that data flow transmission is interrupted when searching for the preferred network. The user device may search for the preferred network based on a list of search parameters. The list of search parameters may be prioritized differently based on whether the user device is active or idle, and may be based on a quantity of times that the user device has searched for the preferred network.