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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:
Feb. 13, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2015
Applicant:

Sprint Communications Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Ahsan Habib, Olathe, KS (US);

Brian Douglas Mauer, Shawnee, KS (US);

Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US);

Pallavur Ananthakrishnan Sankaranaraynan, Frisco, TX (US);

Matthew Carl Schlesener, Shawnee, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 40/18 (2009.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 40/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for adaptively providing network access to mobile devices. The mobile devices have a first interface for a wireless access network and a second interface for a personal area network. The wireless access network connects the mobile devices to a base station, and the personal area network connects the mobile device to other mobile devices that are part of the personal area network. Wireless access conditions are generated by the base station and communicated over the wireless access network to mobile devices that generate network access requests. Additionally, the mobile devices may transmit the wireless access conditions over the personal are network to other mobile devices that are within a predetermined distance. The mobile devices detect that the wireless access conditions in the wireless access network have degraded and adaptively select alternate routes to complete the network access requests.


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