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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Biljana Badic, Munich, DE;
Babar Qaisrani, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.02);
Abstract
Implementations relate to identifying an event disrupting connectivity to a first network; determining, for an apparatus, that the apparatus has a connection to a second network; transmitting a message indicating to one or more neighboring devices that the apparatus has network connectivity; receiving a first relay request from a first device and a second relay request from a second device; forwarding, using the connection to the second network, a message associated with the first relay request; and transmitting, to the second device, a backoff message.