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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2011
Applicants:

Patrick Stupar, Nuremberg, DE;

Gerardo Giaretta, San Diego, CA (US);

Ramaswamy Venkateshwaran, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Patrick Stupar, Nuremberg, DE;

Gerardo Giaretta, San Diego, CA (US);

Ramaswamy Venkateshwaran, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/54 (2013.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/5692 (2013.01); H04W 28/0268 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 76/025 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01); H04W 28/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method for allocating a data flow based on selection criteria including receiving at least one policy including at least one indication for selecting an access from two or more of available accesses; determining a selection criterion based on the data flow; and selecting the access based on the determined selection criterion and the at least one indication. In one example, the selection criterion is one of the following: a bandwidth requirement for the data flow, an application generating the data flow, a protocol used to carry the data flow, a file size, an application name/ID, a role ID, or a throughput of the data flow. In one example, the policy is a management object (MO) received from an Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) module and the selected access is for a wireless local area network (WLAN), a LTE network or for a 3GPP service.


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