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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
May. 12, 2015
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Thomas Quigley, Franklin, NC (US);
Alexander MacInnis, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Arya Behzad, Poway, CA (US);
Jeyhan Karaoguz, Irvine, CA (US);
John Walley, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Mark Buer, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for a handheld portable communication device for configuring connection to and use of local and remote resources are disclosed and may include discovering available networks and resources, establishing a route between the handheld wireless communication device and a selected one or more of the available resources via a selected one or more of the available networks based on user preference criteria stored in the handheld wireless communication device, and communicating multimedia data between the handheld wireless communication device and the selected one or more of the available resources via the established route. The established route may be dynamically adjusted, based on network availability and bandwidth. The handheld wireless communication device may communicate utilizing a plurality of wireless protocols. The preference criteria stored in the handheld wireless communication device may be dynamically adjusted. The resources may be local or remote to the handheld wireless communication device.