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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:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2019
Applicant:

At&t Mobility Ii Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Alexander Viox, Atlanta, GA (US);

Iftekhar Alam, Atlanta, GA (US);

Ming-Ju Ho, Alpharetta, GA (US);

Assignee:

AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/10 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 41/0896 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04W 28/08 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatuses may dynamically enhance a first network bandwidth with bandwidth available in one or more other networks based on user bandwidth needs and network bandwidth availability. A gateway apparatus may monitor the user desired bandwidth, determine that the desired bandwidth is greater than a first threshold bandwidth (e.g., a first network digital subscriber line (DSL) service bandwidth), activate a connection to a second network (e.g., a Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobility network), derive the second network available bandwidth, and use at least a portion of the second network available bandwidth with the first network bandwidth to provide at least a portion of the desired bandwidth (e.g., improve user Internet speed). Thus, the gateway apparatus may enhance the first network bandwidth when needed and may avoid negatively impacting the second network by using the second network connection to transfer data if the second network has bandwidth available.


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