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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bruce O. Anthony, Jr., Pine Island, MN (US);
Ronald L. Billau, Rochester, MN (US);
Chatschik Bisdikian, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Canio Cillis, Berlin, DE;
Victor S. Moore, Gainsville, FL (US);
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Robert B. Nicholson, Portsmouth, GB;
Colin J. Thorne, Southampton, GB;
Dinesh C. Verma, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A processor-implemented method, apparatus, and/or computer program product move Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layer 4 connections between wirelessly-connected user equipment to a series of cell-towers, wherein an OSI layer 4 connection is extracted out of the underlying cellular protocols at the series of cell-towers. A detection is made that user equipment, which has a broken-out layer 4 connection, has moved from a first cell-tower to a second cell-tower. Traffic for an existing layer 4 connection from the user equipment is tunnelled between the first cell-tower and the second cell-tower. A predetermined trigger event is identified. In response to the predetermined trigger event occurring, an ongoing bidirectional flow of data packets is migrated from the user equipment over to layer 4 connections maintained at the second cell-tower.