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Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014

Filed:

May. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Novatel Wireless, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

John Wu, San Diego, CA (US);

Matthew Carlisle, Sammamish, WA (US);

Slim Souissi, San Diego, CA (US);

Seung Kim, San Diego, CA (US);

Gwan Hee You, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Novatel Wireless, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/02 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/2015 (2013.01); H04L 61/2514 (2013.01);
Abstract

A Universal Serial Bus (USB) modem/Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) device is provided that when connected to a host device, presents itself as an Ethernet endpoint to the host device, without requiring additional software/drivers to be downloaded to the host device. Embedded in the USB modem/WWAN device are various modules that provide functionality allowing either automatic connection to the Internet or redirection to a local Web User Interface (UI) that a user may employ to configure the USB modem/WWAN device and/or manually connect to the Internet. Additionally, the USB modem/WWAN device employs predetermined rules to determine whether or not/how the redirection occurs, including in scenarios where wireless connectivity to the Internet is unavailable.


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