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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. 20, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ye Huang, San Ramon, CA (US);

Miguel A. Carames, Long Valley, NJ (US);

Jignesh Patel, Haltom City, TX (US);

Sudhir Patel, Boonton, NJ (US);

Michael R. Waters, Staten Island, NY (US);

Gregory D. Roberts, Haslet, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/02 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 40/30 (2009.01); H04W 8/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/02 (2013.01); H04W 8/08 (2013.01); H04W 40/30 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A user device may be provisioned with a list of paths for connecting to a network. A method may include determining that the user device has attached to a visited network and sending the visited network an indication of connectivity capabilities associated with the network. The method may include receiving an indication of one or more paths established from the visited network to the network based on capabilities of the visited network. The one or more paths may be included in the list of paths. The method may include transmitting data to or from the user device via a first path of the one or more paths.


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