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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:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2020
Applicants:

Cellco Partnership, Arlington, VA (US);

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Priscilla Lau, Concord, CA (US);

Patricia R. Chang, San Ramon, CA (US);

Arda Aksu, Martinez, CA (US);

Jay J. Lee, San Ramon, CA (US);

Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);

Thomas H. Tan, San Jose, CA (US);

Maria G. Lam, Oakland, CA (US);

Steven R. Rados, Danville, CA (US);

John F. Macias, Antelope, CA (US);

Derek Hongwei Bao, Concord, CA (US);

Assignees:

Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 36/24 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04W 36/14 (2013.01); H04W 36/24 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system may be configured to identify that a user device is connected to a first radio access network ('RAN'), via a first technology; and to identify that the user device is capable of accessing a second RAN, via a second technology. The system may further be configured to instruct the user device to concurrently connect to the second RAN and the first RAN, send or receive a first type of traffic via the first RAN, and send or receive a second type of traffic via the second RAN.


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