Patent ID: 9350662
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for offloading communication from a network infrastructure, comprising: receiving first location information from a first wireless device and second location information from a second wireless device over the network infrastructure; predicting that the first wireless device intends to communicate with the second wireless device based on one or more reports received from the first wireless device that describe an activity on the first wireless device; determining, in response to the predicting, whether communication between the first wireless device and the second wireless device is able to be offloaded from the network infrastructure based at least in part on the first location information received from the first wireless device and the second location information received from the second wireless device; and instructing the first wireless device and the second wireless device to communicate over a peer-to-peer connection that bypasses the network infrastructure in response to determining that the communication between the first wireless device and the second wireless device is able to be offloaded from the network infrastructure.