Patent ID: 9608891
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for routing data traffic between local area network (LAN) connections of a LAN and wide area network (WAN) connections corresponding to subscriptions of a softAP computing device, comprising: storing, by a processor of the softAP computing device, a mapping that associates each of at least two of a plurality of LAN connections for the LAN established by the softAP computing device with a different one of a plurality of WAN connections configured to connect one or more client devices to a different one of a plurality of WANs; connecting, by the processor of the softAP computing device, a client device to the LAN via a first LAN connection of the at least two of the plurality of LAN connections; routing, by the processor of the softAP computing device, uplink data traffic received from the client device to a first WAN of the plurality of WANs via a first WAN connection of the plurality of WAN connections based on the stored mapping; routing, by the processor of the softAP computing device, downlink data traffic received from the first WAN via the first WAN connection to the client device based on the stored mapping; determining, by the processor of the softAP computing device, whether to re-route the uplink data traffic to a second WAN of the plurality of WANs via a second WAN connection of the plurality of WAN connections; re-routing, by the processor of the softAP computing device, the uplink data traffic received from the client device via the first LAN connection to the second WAN via the second WAN connection in response to determining to re-route the uplink data traffic; and limiting, by the processor of the softAP computing device, the uplink data traffic re-routed to the second WAN connection, in response to the second WAN being associated with a faster subscription than the first WAN, by degrading bandwidth available to the uplink data traffic re-routed to the second WAN connection in order to maintain relative operating speed characteristics between the first and second WAN connections.