Enhanced multi transport for redundancy

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11212372-B2
Application number	US-201916731934-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 31, 2019
Priority date	Dec 31, 2019
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

Methods and systems for enhanced multipath transport (MPT) are provided. Exemplary methods include: receiving by a hub a first data packet from a client; identifying a priority of the first data packet; encapsulating the first data packet based on the priority; redundantly sending a first encapsulated first data packet to an MPT server over a wired broadband network and a second encapsulated first data packet to the MPT server over a wireless broadband network; getting a second data packet responsive to the first encapsulated data packet, the second data packet being produced by a service; forwarding the second data packet to the client.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for enhanced multipath transport (MPT), the method comprising:
receiving by a hub a first data packet from a client;
identifying a priority of the first data packet, the priority being identified based on the first data packet, at least one predetermined application running on the client and a predetermined service requested in the first data packet;
encapsulating the first data packet based on the priority;
redundantly sending a first encapsulated first data packet to an MPT server over a wired broadband network and a second encapsulated first data packet to the MPT server over a wireless broadband network, wherein the first encapsulated first data packet includes a MPT protocol header having a tunnel id field that identifies packets of a MPT channel among other incoming packets, the tunnel id field including a peer id that is a unique identification for a tunnel known on both sender and receiver sides of the MPT channel;
getting a second data packet responsive to the first encapsulated first data packet, the second data packet being produced by a service; and
forwarding the second data packet to the client.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the client runs an application associated with the service.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the wired broadband network is at least one of cable Internet access, digital subscriber line (DSL), and fiber to the premises (FTTP).

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the hub includes a radio for the wireless broadband network.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the wireless broadband network is at least one of 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless telecommunications.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the hub includes a modem for the wireless broadband network.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the service includes at least one of voice communications, text messaging, security system monitoring, financial services, and media streaming.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the hub is physically located on premises.

Assignees

• Ooma Inc

Inventors

• Morozov Vyacheslav
• Vasudev Arvind
• Gillon William M
• Zyryanov Egor
• Furse Daniel
• Farrand Tobin E
• Shalit Amir
• Nishikida Dean
• Joshi Suhas

Classifications

• H04L65/4015

  where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference · CPC title

• H04L69/14 Primary

  Multichannel or multilink protocols · CPC title

• H04L45/24 Primary

  Multipath · CPC title

• H04L67/61

  taking into account QoS or priority requirements · CPC title

• H04L67/01

  Protocols · CPC title