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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Paul Shala Henry, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Zhimei Jiang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Byoung-Jo Kim, Morganville, NJ (US);
Kin K. Leung, Edison, NJ (US);
Hui Luo, Marlboro, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to enable IP networking for mobile hosts without requiring changes to be made to the TCP/IP stack in the operating system installed on the mobile hosts. The apparatus is an 'intelligent device' that can be installed on or connected to a mobile host, and may comprise a software-only logical module, physical hardware, or a combination of both. To a mobile host, the intelligent device emulates a network interface such as an Ethernet card or a telephone modem. The intelligent device appears to an access network just like any regular IP host connected to the access network through a physical network interface device. The intelligent device handles all mobile networking functions for the mobile host, and may control multiple different physical network interface devices to enable a connection to an access network available to the mobile user at his location.