Patent ID: 11943841
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of operating a User Equipment (UE) that uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) over radios, the method comprising:
at past geographic locations, UE circuitry exchanging past TCP packets with the radios;
at the past geographic locations, the radios wirelessly exchanging the past TCP packets with wireless communication nodes;
the UE circuitry determining past TCP retransmission rates for the radios at the past geographic locations;
at a new geographic location, the UE circuitry calculating distances between the new geographic location and the past geographic locations and determining estimated TCP retransmission rates for the radios at the new geographic location based on the past TCP retransmission rates for the radios at the past geographic locations and the distances between the new geographic location and the past geographic locations;
the UE circuitry comparing the estimated TCP retransmission rates for the radios at the new geographic location to a rate threshold and selecting one of the radios having an estimated TCP retransmission rate below the rate threshold;
at the new geographic location, the UE circuitry exchanging new TCP packets with the selected one of the radios; and
at the new geographic location, the selected one of the radios wirelessly exchanging the new TCP packets with one of the wireless communication nodes.