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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2019
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Ted Schroeder, Saratoga, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for maintaining communication links. In one aspect, a computing system includes: (1) a client agent communicatively coupled to a client device, the client agent configured to: (a) facilitate communication between the client device and a remote server via a communication channel including a first portion of the communication channel between the client device and the client agent; and (b) maintain the first portion of the communication channel during a communication outage in a different portion of the communication channel; and (2) a communications server distinct from the client device and the remote server, the communications server configured to: (a) enable communication between the client device and the remote server via the communication channel; and (b) reestablish the communication channel in the event of a communication outage between the client agent and the remote server.