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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:
Oct. 21, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2009
Applicants:

David Famolari, Stewartsville, NJ (US);

Kyriakos Manousakis, New Brunswick, NJ (US);

Kaustubh Sinkar, New Brunswick, NJ (US);

Inventors:

David Famolari, Stewartsville, NJ (US);

Kyriakos Manousakis, New Brunswick, NJ (US);

Kaustubh Sinkar, New Brunswick, NJ (US);

Assignees:

Toshiba America Research, Inc., Washington, DC (US);

Telcordia Technologies, Inc., Piscataway, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01); H04L 69/18 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

This present application relates to, among other things, novel techniques to evaluate and qualify multiple networking options. A device contains multiple network connectivity options, including but not limited to various wireless and wired technologies such as Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMAX, LTE, Ethernet, Bluetooth, UWB, WHDMI, etc. Each connectivity option can be evaluation and pre-qualified prior to the user selecting that mode of communication. This evaluation process takes into account both lower-layer information such as signal strength, bit error rates, SNR, interference, etc. but also network-layer information such as IP connectivity, and end-to-end path performance.


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