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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
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);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
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.