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Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

John Gatewood, Lee's Summit, MO (US);

Matthew P. Hund, Olathe, KS (US);

Bhanu Prakash Voruganti, Overland Park, KS (US);

Lee Alan Schnitzer, Lenexa, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and software for providing a wireless local area network to user devices using a wireless access node are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a wireless access node is provided. The method includes providing a wireless local area network for user devices, selecting a first wireless backhaul link for communications of the wireless local area network from among a plurality of wireless links provided by a plurality of wireless access nodes based on at least signal strengths of the wireless links, and selecting a second wireless backhaul link as a backup for the first wireless backhaul link from among the plurality of wireless links based on at least the signal strengths and uptime information of the wireless links.


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