Patent ID: 11924899
Assignee: PARALLEL WIRELESS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A method for providing Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) using a multi-radio access technology (RAT) base station, comprising:
proxying, by the base station gateway having a MPTCP proxy, an MPTCP connection with a User Equipment (UE);
determining, by the base station gateway, if there is sufficient capacity for a first RAT to provide MPTCP;
when there is sufficient capacity using the first RAT, then providing, by the base station gateway, a connection using the first RAT and a connection using a second RAT different from the first RAT, wherein the first RAT provides network slicing;
when there is insufficient capacity, then providing, by the base station gateway, a second RAT connection; and
when the UE is capable of MPTCP, carrying user datagram protocol (UDP) traffic via the first RAT connection and re-anchored to a packet data network gateway (PGW) by the base station gateway via a second interface, and; when the UE is not capable of MPTCP, relaying cellular local serving traffic from the first RAT to a macro of the second RAT.