Patent ID: 9668168
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A mobile data offload method for associating a mobile client device with a wireless access point, the method comprising: transmitting a first authentication request from the mobile client device to the wireless access point via a first network, the first network being a Cellular Wide Area radio communication network; transmitting a second authentication request from the mobile client device to the wireless access point via a second network, the second network being a Short Range radio communication network or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication network; upon receiving at least one of the first authentication request and the second authentication request at the wireless access point, transmitting an authentication response from the wireless access point to the mobile client device via the second network; and upon receiving the authentication response at the mobile client device, associating the mobile client device with the wireless access point; wherein transmitting the first authentication request via the first network comprises: transmitting the first authentication request from the mobile client device to an offload server via the first network; and transmitting the first authentication request from the offload server to the wireless access point via the first network.