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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:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

May. 19, 2020
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Wen Yang, Bellevue, WA (US);

Ye Chen, Milton, GA (US);

Arthur Brisebois, Cumming, GA (US);

Hongyan Lei, Plano, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/06 (2009.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0677 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first application executed by a user equipment, computing a first metric associated with an uplink between the user equipment and a base station over a first network, comparing the first metric with a second metric associated with the execution of the first application by the user equipment, and responsive to the comparing, causing the user equipment to connect to the base station via a second network that is different from the first network. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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