Patent ID: 9350649
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for establishing and sending data during a multipath connection comprising: a data-source device receiving multipath information about each of a plurality of network-edge devices that is capable of joining a multipath connection with a data-requesting device, each of the network-edge devices being connected to one or more networks, and each of the network-edge devices being connected to the data-requesting device over a different connection; and the data-source device performing at least one of (i) sending different groups of data packets to different network-edge devices that are participating in the multipath connection, (ii) sending different streams of data to one or more of the network-edge devices that are participating in the multipath connection, and (iii) sending combinations of different streams and different groups of data packets to one or more of the network-edge devices that are participating in the multipath connection.