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Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2017
Applicant:

T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Vinod Kumar, Sammamish, WA (US);

Dragos Dumitru Lazar, Issaquah, WA (US);

Omar Hassan, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:

T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0811 (2013.01); H04L 12/5692 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01);
Abstract

The systems, devices, and methods discussed herein are directed to continuously providing Internet connection for user equipment (UE) connected to a router by monitoring availability of a primary data, or Internet, connection provided by a primary Internet service provider (ISP) for the router, upon determining that the primary data connection has become unavailable, switching to a secondary data, or Internet, connection established using a mobile network of a secondary ISP, and upon determining that the primary data connection has become available, switching back to the primary data connection.


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