Patent ID: 11930548
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A computing device to establish multiple infrastructure connections to multiple access points via a single wireless network interface controller (WNIC), the computing device comprising:
the WNIC;
a memory storing an operating system; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to execute the operating system, the operating system configured to:
analyze capability information, which indicates capabilities of the WNIC, to determine one or more combinations of identified frequency bands over which the WNIC is capable of communicating simultaneously;
analyze availability information, which indicates available frequency bands that are available to connect the computing device to one or more of the access points, to determine signal qualities associated with the respective available frequency bands;
establish a primary infrastructure connection between the computing device and a first access point via the WNIC based at least in part on a first frequency band with which the first access point is associated being included among the identified frequency bands and being associated with a signal quality that is not less than a signal quality associated with each other available frequency band that is included in the identified frequency bands;
confirm that the computing device is not connected on a maximum number of frequency bands that are allowed; and
establish a secondary infrastructure connection between the computing device and a second access point via the WNIC, such that the primary and secondary infrastructure connections are operable simultaneously, based at least in part on the computing device not being connected on the maximum number of frequency bands that are allowed and further based at least in part on a second frequency band with which the second access point is associated being included among the identified frequency bands in the combination over which the WNIC is capable of communicating simultaneously.