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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Cellco Partnership, Arlington, VA (US);
Patricia R. Chang, San Ramon, CA (US);
Lalit R. Kotecha, San Ramon, CA (US);
Sagiv Draznin, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Deepak Kakadia, Union City, CA (US);
Jay J. Lee, San Ramon, CA (US);
Thomas H. Tan, San Jose, CA (US);
Donna L. Polehn, Kirkland, WA (US);
David Chiang, Fremont, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Cellco Partnership, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system may be configured to receive information regarding a geographical location of a user device; and compare the geographical location of the user device to geographical locations of a set of gateway devices. The gateway devices may be associated with a cellular network, and the gateway devices may communicatively couple one or more network devices associated with the cellular network to an access point that is not associated with the cellular network. The system may further select a particular gateway device based on the geographical location of the user device and the geographical locations of the particular gateway device; and store or output information regarding the selected particular gateway device.