Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Technique for load balancing between cellular network subscriptions in a router having both short range and cellular communication interfaces
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Application No.: US14415503Application Date: 2012-07-19
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Publication No.: US09730106B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Bengt Lindoff , Harald Gustafsson , Per Persson
- Applicant: Bengt Lindoff , Harald Gustafsson , Per Persson
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- International Application: PCT/EP2012/003041 WO 20120719
- International Announcement: WO2014/012561 WO 20140123
- Main IPC: H04L12/26
- IPC: H04L12/26 ; H04W28/08 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W8/18 ; H04W88/16 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
A WLAN router connected via a cellular network (e.g. LTE) to the Internet is disclosed; a plurality of SIMs (subscriptions), each associated with a user of the router, may be plugged into the router (or soft SIMs used); simultaneous Internet access for a plurality of users is achieved, even if the WLAN router does only have one TX/RX equipment, by the following features: the WLAN router—when receiving a portion of network traffic for a user—determines the subscription that the portion is associated with and updates a data usage quota for the subscription accordingly by an amount of data corresponding to said portion; thereafter, it is decided whether future network traffic for that subscription shall be transmitted over the same network connection or another subscription's network connection based on the updated data usage quota; thus, the router carries out load balancing between the subscriptions.
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