Patent ID: 11889575
Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system for managing network connections for a device, comprising:
a network element comprising a service access manager that manages network access of the device across a plurality of different network providers, wherein the service access manager communicates with a control middleware between an application layer and a transport layer on the device to receive a plurality of policies for selecting from the plurality of different network providers for network access,
wherein the network element further comprises a network information manager that manages information about the different network providers near the device to enable handover decisions between the network providers, and
wherein the information about the different network providers nearby the device comprises information selected from the group consisting of network bandwidth, network cost, network latency, spectrum availability, location, time, network presence, network security, device sensor data, application resource usage or combinations thereof.