US 10,873,497 B2Granted

Systems and methods for maintaining communication links

AssigneeVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

InventorTed Schroeder

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Abstract

The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for maintaining communication links. In one aspect, a computing system includes: (1) a client agent communicatively coupled to a client device, the client agent configured to: (a) facilitate communication between the client device and a remote server via a communication channel including a first portion of the communication channel between the client device and the client agent; and (b) maintain the first portion of the communication channel during a communication outage in a different portion of the communication channel; and (2) a communications server distinct from the client device and the remote server, the communications server configured to: (a) enable communication between the client device and the remote server via the communication channel; and (b) reestablish the communication channel in the event of a communication outage between the client agent and the remote server.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising

detecting, by a network device, a communication failure associated with a communication channel between a client device and a server device, the communication failure being in at least one of:
a first portion of the communication channel between the client device and the network device, or
a second portion of the communication channel between the network device and the server device, and
wherein the communication failure is a result of at least one of:
a network going offline,
a server switching to a new network, or
detecting a networking metric does not meet a threshold metric;
receiving, by the network device and from at least one of the client device or the server device, one or more network packets to be sent via the communication channel;
selectively:
providing, by the network device, during the communication failure, and when the one or more network packets are received from the client device, the client device with one or more client acknowledgments that correspond to each of the one or more network packets,
the one or more client acknowledgments providing the client device with no indication of the communication failure, or
providing, by the network device, during the communication failure, and when the one or more network packets are received from the server device, the server device with one or more server acknowledgments that correspond to each of the one or more network packets,
the one or more server acknowledgments providing the server device with no indication of the communication failure;
maintaining, by the network device and during the communication failure, the communication channel;
and
reestablishing communications, by the network device and via the communication channel, while maintaining the communication channel.

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A network device, comprising:

one or more memories;
and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
detect a communication failure associated with a communication channel between a client device and a server device, the communication failure being in at least one of:
a first portion of the communication channel between the client device and the network device, or
a second portion of the communication channel between the network device and the server device, and
wherein the communication failure is a result of at least one of:
a network going offline,
a server switching to a new network, or
detect a networking metric does not meet a threshold metric;
receive, from at least one of the client device or the server device, one or more network packets to be sent via the communication channel;
selectively:
provide, during the communication failure and when the one or more network packets are received from the client device, the client device with one or more client acknowledgments that correspond to each of the one or more network packets,
the one or more client acknowledgments providing the client device with no indication of the communication failure, or
provide, during the communication failure and when the one or more network packets are received from the server device, the server device with one or more server acknowledgments that correspond to each of the one or more network packets,
the one or more server acknowledgments providing the server device with no indication of the communication failure;
maintain, during the communication failure, the communication channel;
and
reestablish communications, via the communication channel, while maintaining the communication channel.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network device, cause the one or more processors to:
detect a communication failure associated with a communication channel between a client device and a server device, the communication failure being in at least one of:
a first portion of the communication channel between the client device and the network device, or
a second portion of the communication channel between the network device and the server device, and
wherein the communication failure is a result of at least one of:
a network going offline,
a server switching to a new network, or
detect a networking metric does not meet a threshold metric;
receive, from at least one of the client device or the server device, one or more network packets to be sent via the communication channel;
selectively:
provide, during the communication failure and when the one or more network packets are received from the client device, the client device with one or more client acknowledgments that correspond to each of the one or more network packets,
the one or more client acknowledgments providing the client device with no indication of the communication failure, or
provide, during the communication failure and when the one or more network packets are received from the server device, the server device with one or more server acknowledgments that correspond to each of the one or more network packets,
the one or more server acknowledgments providing the server device with no indication of the communication failure;
maintain, during the communication failure, the communication channel;
and
reestablish communications, via the communication channel, while maintaining the communication channel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/731,157Filed 31 Dec 2019 · continuation
Priority: 11 May 2017
Published: US 2020/0136893 A130 Apr 2020
Granted: 22 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04L 41/0654
Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications: using network fault recovery
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication
H04L 63/0281
For separating internal from external traffic, e.g. firewalls: proxies
H04L 63/0815
For authentication of entities: providing single-sign-on or federations

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Application15/593,181Parent of this continuation · filed 11 May 2017
US 2020/0136893 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Apr 2020
US 10,554,480 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0331886 A1Published application
US 10,873,497 B2This patent

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