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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:
Jan. 05, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2013
Applicant:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);

Inventors:

Reza Okhravi, Walnut Creek, CA (US);

Robert Boice, Holliston, MA (US);

William H. Stone, Doylestown, PA (US);

Stanley A. Zadrozny, Westfield, NJ (US);

Derek Hongwei Bao, Concord, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/08 (2013.01); H04L 43/0888 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A server device may be configured to determine a first measure of throughput associated with a cellular wireless network, determine a second measure of throughput associated with a wireless local area network ('WLAN'), compare the first measure of throughput to the second measure of throughput; select, based on the comparing, a particular one of the cellular wireless network or the WLAN, and send an instruction to a user device that is in range of the cellular wireless network and the WLAN, the instruction instructing the user device to connect to the particular selected wireless network.


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