Patent ID: 11889589
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method of operating a communications network to convey message data from first user equipment to second user equipment, wherein the communications network comprises a network node, a wireless base station, and a proxy server, the method comprising:
with the wireless base station, receiving a first message from the first user equipment over a first communications link having a first bandwidth;
with the wireless base station, routing the first message to the network node;
with the network node, receiving the first message over a first network tunnel that runs from the first user equipment to the network node and through the wireless base station; and
with the proxy server, while the first communications link is unavailable, receiving message data from the first user equipment over a second communications link, the second communications link having a second bandwidth that is less than the first bandwidth.