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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Anumita Biswas, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04W 80/06 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/142 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/141 (2013.01); H04L 67/143 (2013.01); H04L 69/163 (2013.01); H04W 80/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for supporting long-lived multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) sessions. An MPTCP session may be established between two endpoints. Application data may be communicated between the MPTCP endpoints over one or more MPTCP subflows of the MPTCP session. All MPTCP subflows may be terminated. MPTCP session state information may be maintained after all MPTCP subflows have been terminated. Thus, a zero-subflow MPTCP session may be maintained. Additional MPTCP subflows may subsequently be added back to the MPTCP session using the maintained MPTCP session state information.