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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:
Aug. 06, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 09, 2015
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Rajendra Prasad Kodaypak, Sammamish, WA (US);

Ryan Redfern, Cerritos, CA (US);

Jiansong Wang, Parlin, NJ (US);

Gaurav Gupta, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 36/0007 (2018.08); H04W 72/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Dynamically switching between broadcast and unicast services for service continuity between wireless networks is presented herein. A system can comprise a detection component configured to determine that a mobile device is receiving a broadcast transmission of broadcast data from a broadcast enabled access point device configured to send, via a broadcast service wireless coverage area, the broadcast data to multiple devices via a point-to-multipoint communication protocol. Further, the detection component can detect a movement of the mobile device from the broadcast service wireless coverage area to a unicast service wireless coverage area. A transfer component can initiate, in response to the detection, a unicast transmission of the broadcast data from a unicast enabled access point device to the mobile device—the unicast enabled access point device configured to send, via the unicast service wireless coverage area, the broadcast data to a single device via a point-to-point communication protocol.


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