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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2012
Applicant:
Dash Navigation, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Assimakis Tzamaloukas, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
BlackBerry Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 28/26 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/006 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/327 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method uses a communication request and/or historical data collected by one or more devices to identify whether to fulfill the request using ad hoc networking or access points. If an access point is determined to be used, the system and method attempts to identify those access points that can best fulfill the request and then attempts to use such access points to fulfill the request.