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

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) using a cellular radio access technology (RAT) base station, comprising:
proxying, by a base station gateway having a MPTCP proxy, an MPTCP connection with a User Equipment (UE);
determining by the base station gateway, if the UE is capable of MPTCP to provide MPTCP with the UE;
when the UE is capable of MPTCP, then providing, by the base station gateway, a Wi-Fi connection and a cellular connection as a MPTCP connection; and
when the UE is not capable of MPTCP, then providing, by the cellular RAT base station, the cellular connection; and
when the UE is capable of MPTCP, carrying user datagram protocol (UDP) traffic via the Wi-Fi 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 to a macro.