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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2023
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Zheng Fang, McLean, VA (US);
Zheng Cai, Fairfax, VA (US);
T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
The technology disclosed herein relates to a multi-link device and methods, media, and systems associated with the multi-link device. The multi-link device can establish multiple wide area network (WAN) connections with multiple base stations. The multi-link device has multiple sets of antennas, and each WAN connection is associated with at least one of the multiple sets of antennas. The multi-link device also has a local area network (LAN) interface that is capable of establishing a plurality of LAN connections. The multi-link device can determine which of the WAN connections has a highest uplink bandwidth or a lowest uplink bandwidth. In some embodiments, the multi-link device ranks each of the WAN connections based on uplink bandwidth. Further, the multi-link device can transmit various sets of data (e.g., video data, image data, audio data, location data) to the multiple base stations via the WAN connections that are concurrently active.