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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:
Sep. 26, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 04, 2014
Applicant:

Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Dutt Kalapatapu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Florin Baboescu, San Diego, CA (US);

Kamesh Medapalli, San Jose, CA (US);

Farouk Belghoul, Campbell, CA (US);

Ahmad Rahmati, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 36/22 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/22 (2013.01); H04W 28/08 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communication device and method for offloading communications from a first communication network to a second communication network. The offloading decision can be based on one or more utility values and/or one or more utility sum values. The utility values and/or utility sum values can be defined in a communication framework. The communication framework can be, for example, Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) framework. The offloading of communication can be from a Long-term Evolution (LTE) network to a wireless local area network (WLAN), or vice-versa. The communication framework can include, for example, utility, utility sum, positional, movement, signal quality, connection duration, data rate, and/or quality of service (QoS) parameters.


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