Patent ID: 7889686

Claim:
A system of parallel wireless communication sessions transmitting a packetized stream of media data having an audio component or a video component, the system comprising: a mobile device comprising a first microprocessor having means for establishing and maintaining communication sessions with two or more wireless networks at the same time, and communications with a recipient device, multiple wireless communications modules connected to the first microprocessor, wherein each wireless communications module is adapted to wirelessly communicate with a different communication network, and means for packetizing a stream of media data stored in a memory of the first microprocessor; the recipient device comprising a second microprocessor having means for establishing and maintaining a communication session with the mobile device, and a telephone call to the mobile device, means for performing a coordination function, wherein duplicate packets, transmitted by the mobile device in a parallel communication to more than one communication network at the same time, arrive at the recipient device at different times, and a determination is made as to which communication network has transmitted a most reliable media data stream, and which communication network has a slowest transmission rater, and means for transmitting to the mobile device results of operation of the coordination function; and wherein the mobile device further comprises means for receiving the results of operation of the coordination function, and (i) terminating the communication session with the communication network with the slowest transmission rate, or (ii) terminating all communication sessions with communication networks except with the communications network having the most reliable transmission.