Soft handoffs in networks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8971295-B2
Application number	US-201414148419-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 6, 2014
Priority date	Jul 8, 2010
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

Various embodiments enable a device to maintain a plurality of connections to a plurality of wireless networks simultaneously using one radio. For instance, a device can partition in time, or “time-slice”, when it transmits and receives data such that a device can maintain a plurality of connections with a plurality of networks concurrently. With the plurality of connections, the device can receive multiple copies of data. In some embodiments, a device can compare multiple copies of data and determine which copy of data is a best representation. Once a best representation has been determined, it can be selected for further usage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. One or more computer-readable storage memory devices comprising processor-executable instructions which, responsive to execution by at least one processor, are configured to enable a computing device to:
receive data via a first wireless network;
receive data via at least a second wireless network;
identify partial payload data duplication in the data received via the first wireless network and the data received via at least the second wireless network;…

Assignees

• Microsoft Corp

Inventors

• Kuehnel Thomas W

Classifications

• H04L2001/0092

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/18

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• H04L1/06 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W8/18 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W88/10

  Electricity · mapped topic