Patent ID: 9294943
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing resilient data communications, comprising: using a physical-layer link-aggregation protocol to aggregate, at a physical layer of a network, wireless links in the network to generate a virtual channel for data communications, the network having at least the physical layer, a data link layer and a network layer; detecting, at the physical layer, a link failure of a particular wireless link of the virtual channel; segmenting a data frame or a group of data frames across the wireless links of the virtual channel to generate a segmented data frame or a segmented group of data frames; and using one of the segmented data frame or the segmented group of data frames to perform load balancing of the wireless links by automatically redistributing data traffic from the particular wireless link to at least one other wireless link of the virtual channel after the detecting of the link failure of the particular wireless link to render data communications through the virtual channel resilient to the link failure.