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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:
Jul. 28, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2015
Applicant:

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;

Inventors:

Fadi El-Moussa, London, GB;

Ali Sajjad, London, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mobile device having a processor, a memory and a wireless network interface, the processor executing an operating system including a network communication library for providing networking services via the wireless network interface and being further arranged to: receive capability information associated with each of plurality of wireless network access points accessible to the mobile device; identify, for a set of networked applications in execution on the mobile device, one or more applications having associated a wireless network capability requirement; and select an access point from the plurality of access points to provide network communication for the mobile device, the access point being selected based on the identified one or more applications and the received capability information, wherein network communication for applications executed by the mobile device having associated a wireless network capability requirement that is incompatible with a network capability of the selected access point are prevented from network communication by the network communication library.


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