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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2018
Ooma, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William M. Gillon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tobin E. Farrand, Burlingame, CA (US);
David A. Bryan, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Arvind Vasudev, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Douglas E. Hart, San Jose, CA (US);
William T. Krein, Loomis, CA (US);
Ooma, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for alternate network utilization are provided. Exemplary methods include: broadcasting by a hub an unsolicited announcement over a network to a plurality of devices coupled to a router, the unsolicited announcement being configured to cause at least some of the plurality of devices to store in a table a link-layer address of the hub as a link-layer address of the router; receiving by the hub a data packet from a device of the plurality of devices; and selectively directing by the hub the received packet to a first broadband network or a second broadband network using predetermined criteria.