Patent ID: 9232559
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for communicating data with a mobile device capable of communicating using a plurality of communication bearers, the method comprising: selecting a communication bearer to be used by the mobile device, which communication bearer is not currently available, to opportunistically initiate a data transfer between a server and the mobile device using a cost function that associates each bearer with a cost and a policy table that maps the range of the cost function associated with each bearer to the identity of the bearer, the cost function and the policy table having been communicated between the server and the mobile device for use in selecting the communication bearer from among the plurality of communication bearers, waiting for the selected communication bearer to become available, and when the selected communication bearer becomes available, initiating the data transfer between the server and the mobile device using the selected communication bearer.