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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2014
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Amandeep Singh, Karnataka, IN;
Gaston S. Ormazabal, New York, NY (US);
Henning G. Schulzrinne, Leonia, NJ (US);
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Method for unified networking for a device in heterogeneous mobile environments includes maintaining and monitoring active network interfaces, managing the location of the device, managing network access security, enabling disruption tolerance support for applications, enabling service sharing and session mobility, managing system parameters for one or more active application sessions, managing storage functionality in one or more memory devices, and maintaining a mapping for one or more flows corresponding to the one or more active application sessions, maintaining one or more policies, and performing flow control decisions based upon the policies using a policy engine. The method can also include monitoring for network events, evaluating whether to perform a handover based upon policies, and providing seamless secure handovers in a heterogeneous mobile environment. A device, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and a system for unified networking are also provided.