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

Claim 5:
6. A method for providing Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) using a cellular radio access technology (RAT) base station, comprising:
proxying, by the base station gateway having a MPTCP proxy, an initial MPTCP connection with a User Equipment (UE);
determining, by the base station gateway, if there is sufficient 5G capacity to provide MPTCP;
when there is sufficient 5G capacity, then providing, by the M -RAT base station, a 5G connection and a 4G connection;
when there is insufficient 5G capacity, then providing, by the multi-RAT base station, a 4G connection; and
when the UE is capable of MPTCP, carrying user datagram protocol (UDP) traffic via the 5G connection and re-anchored to a 4G 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.