US 10,241,641 B1Granted

Notification of a wireless local area network by a browser application of a wireless communication device

AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.

InventorsAnurag Thantharate, Hannah Jo Sifuentes, John Eric Belser, Do Kyu Lee

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Abstract

A wireless communication device may be operated to facilitate directing user applications to use WLAN data connections. One of the user applications generates an application request for a URI, and a browser application requests a translation of the URI into an IP address. An LTE transceiver exchanges wireless data with an LTE network to translate the URI into the IP address. A WLAN transceiver detects a WLAN data connection. The browser application identifies that the LTE transceiver is exchanging wireless data with the LTE network and that the WLAN data connection is detected, and responsively processes a WLAN identifier for the WLAN data connection and an application identifier for the user application to determine if a user WLAN notice should be presented. If the WLAN notice should be presented, the browser application generates the user WLAN notice. The user WLAN notice is displayed to the user on a graphical display.

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Dependent claims

A wireless communication device to control wireless communications for a user application, the wireless communication device comprising:

a Long Term Evolution (LTE) transceiver;
a Wi-Fi transceiver;
an internet browser;
the user application;
an operating system configured to serve the user application and the internet browser and to control the LTE transceiver and the Wi-Fi transceiver;
the internet browser configured to receive an indication of an active LTE network connection, a Service Set Identifier (SSID) of a Wi-Fi connection, and a Uniform Resource Indicator (URI);
the internet browser configured to process the indication of the active LTE network connection, the SSID of the Wi-Fi connection, and the URI to determine to exchange additional wireless data for the user application over a Wi-Fi network instead of an LTE network;
the internet browser configured to translate the URI into a user application identifier for the application, to store network data that associates the user application identifier with the Wi-Fi SSID, and to generate a user notice;
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the internet browser further configured to generate a user notice responsive to the detection of the user application exchanging the wireless data over the LTE network and the detection of the WLAN associated with the user application;
and
the internet browser configured to receive a positive user response to the user notice and responsively direct the operating system to exchange the additional wireless data for the user application over the Wi-Fi network instead of the LTE network responsive to positive user response.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.