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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2013
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, New York, NY (US);
John Anthony Chen, Ashburn, VA (US);
Brian Coughlin, Reston, VA (US);
Dave Hawkins, Ashburn, VA (US);
Geoff Filippi, Ashburn, VA (US);
TIME WARNER CABLE ENTERPRISES LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for Wi-Fi roaming. A gateway supports both a local access point (AP) and a virtual AP. The local AP is accessible only to an 'owner' of the gateway. The virtual AP (VAP) is accessible to devices associated with the owner of the gateway and to roaming Wi-Fi devices. A datastore conveys information about the roaming Wi-Fi devices to the VAP to permit them to access the VAP without the need for manual configuration of the VAP. A roaming Wi-Fi device may communicate with a gateway via a tunnel to maintain session connectivity during roaming. A session may be initiated on one network, such as a Wi-Fi network or a cellular network, handed off to another network, such as a cellular network or a Wi-Fi network, and then returned to the network on which the session was initiated.