Patent ID: 8868733
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: monitoring a Multi Connection Transport Protocol (MPTCP) connection between a first device and a second device, the first device and the second device having a respective MPTCP layer, and the first device being associated with one or more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses; determining a state of at least one of the one or more first device IP addresses; and communicating the state of the at least one of the one or more first device IP addresses and the at least one of the one or more first device IP addresses to the second device via the MPTCP connection, the communicating the state of the at least one of the one or more first device IP addresses being managed by a layer entity, the layer entity being below the MPTCP layer of the first device and the second device, and the management being transparent to the MPTCP layer.