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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2017
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Lien Tran, Chatham, NJ (US);
Simon Byers, Summit, NJ (US);
Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, Highland Park, NJ (US);
David Poole, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Emir Halepovic, Somerset, NJ (US);
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, Edison, NJ (US);
Christopher Volinsky, Morristown, NJ (US);
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Software downloads to Internet of things (IoT) devices are facilitated over a constrained network. In one embodiment a method comprises monitoring, by a network device comprising a processor, data determined to have been sent to a device for transmission to the device via a radio access network device of a wireless communication network, and determining, by the network device, a type of traffic associated with the data. The method further includes based on a determination that the data comprises firmware and that the type of traffic is of a traffic priority that is lower than a defined traffic priority, applying, by the network device, a low priority transport protocol to the data, wherein the applying comprises associating protocol information with the data representative of the low priority transport protocol.