Patent ID: 8769046

Claim:
A communications, method comprising: operating a network node to receive packets directed to a wireless terminal; operating the network node to select one of a plurality of simultaneously maintained orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communications links with the wireless terminal for use in routing the received packets for delivery to an application on the wireless terminal, said application being one of a plurality of different applications on said wireless terminal, different ones of said simultaneously maintained wireless communications links corresponding to different applications, operating the network node to select one of the plurality of the simultaneously maintained orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless communications links including selecting said one of the plurality of simultaneously maintained orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless communications links, based on an address assigned to the wireless terminal and used by the application to which the packets are to be delivered, when said wireless terminal is assigned multiple addresses and uses different ones of said multiple addresses for different applications; and operating said network node to communicate said packets to an attachment point corresponding to the selected orthogonal frequency division multiplexing link for delivery over the selected orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless link to said wireless terminal, said attachment point being coupled to said network node.