Patent ID: 11962488
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
establishing a multipath link between an Access Point (AP) and a station (STA);
marking, by the STA, the multipath link as Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) capable;
receiving a first request for an addition of a MPTCP subflow;
in response to receiving the first request:
binding the MPTCP subflow to the multipath link, and
sending first data from the MPTCP subflow over the multipath link receiving a second request for a new addition of a second MPTCP subflow; and

in response to receiving the second request:
establishing a second multipath link between the AP and the STA,
binding the second MPTCP subflow to the second multipath link, and
sending second data from the MPTCP subflow over the second multipath link.