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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2018
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Portola Valley, CA (US);
David Harry Garcia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G01S 19/01 (2010.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G01S 19/13 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/26 (2013.01); G01S 19/01 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/26 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); G01S 19/13 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining a set of connections for the first computing device, intercepting a request from a software application executing on the first computing device to establish a connection with a second computing device, selecting from the set of connections an available connection, and assigning the available connection to the software application for connecting to the second computing device.