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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:
Apr. 30, 2019

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Inventors:

Shalini Suresh Periyalwar, Toronto, CA;

Mark E. Pecen, Waterloo, CA;

David Gwyn Steer, Nepean, CA;

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 80/06 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 76/25 (2018.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 80/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04W 72/10 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04L 47/196 (2013.01); H04L 69/14 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 72/10 (2013.01); H04W 76/25 (2018.02); H04W 80/00 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device and method are provided for concurrently using a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) to support a wireless-enabled communications session. A set of data is processed at a client node to identify a subset of priority data. The set of data and the subset of priority data are respectively provided to a first and second protocol stack, which correspond to a first and second RAT. The first and second protocol stacks are then used to control the transmission of a first and second set of transmitted data, which in turn respectively comprise the set of data and the subset of priority data. The first and second sets of transmitted data are received by an access node, which uses corresponding first and second protocol stacks to control their reception. The first and second sets of transmitted data are then processed to generate a set of received data.


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