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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2012
Luke David Macpherson, Pyrmont, AU;
Luke David MacPherson, Pyrmont, AU;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for controlling network access that includes receiving, at a network layer of a protocol stack of a mobile computing device comprising two or more communications interfaces, one or more data packets from an application executing on the mobile computing device, wherein the two or more communication interfaces comprise a cellular communication interface and a wireless network interface; identifying, at the network layer upon receiving the data packet, one or more rules that specify at least one of a plurality of networks to utilize to transmit the data packet, based on the one or more rules, selecting, in the network layer, a communication interface from the two or more communications interfaces associated with the at least one of the plurality of networks for transmitting the one or more data packets.