US 11,690,006 B2Granted

Connecting a wireless hub across multiple wireless networks

AssigneeSkylo Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAndrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Vijay Lewis

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Abstract

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for connecting a wireless hub across multiple wireless networks are disclosed. One system includes a state machine and a router. The state machine operates to maintain a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a hub, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics, wherein the network characteristics include at least IP and non-IP protocols, satellite and non-satellite communication channels, and a connection status. The router operative to select a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine, process data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network, and route the processed data packets to the hub through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A wireless communication system, comprising:

a state machine that operates to maintain a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a hub, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics, wherein the network characteristics include at least IP and non-IP protocols including retry and acknowledgment characteristics, satellite and non-satellite communication channels, and a connection status;
a router, the router operative to:
select a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine;
process data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network;
wherein the hub is one of a plurality of hubs of the wireless communication system, and the hub is operative to:
receive a network selection rulebook from the router, wherein the network selection rulebook provides data packet processing and available network routing rules, wherein the network selection rulebook is generated based upon the network availability and network characteristics;
select a one of the plurality of upstream wireless networks based on the network selection rulebook to transmit data packets to the router based on the network selection rulebook;
wherein the network selection rulebook received by the hub is unique from a network selection rulebook received by at least one other hub of the plurality of hubs;
and
wherein the router is further operative to route the processed data packets to the hub through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.

7 more elements

A method of connecting a wireless hub across multiple networks, comprising:

maintaining, by a state machine, a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a hub, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics, wherein the network characteristics include at least IP and non-IP protocols including retry and acknowledgment characteristics, satellite and non-satellite communication channels, and a connection status;
selecting, by a router, a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine;
processing, by the router, data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network;
receiving, by the hub, a network selection rulebook from the router, wherein the network selection rulebook provides data packet processing and available network routing rules, wherein the network selection rulebook is generated based upon the network availability and network characteristics, wherein the hub is one of a plurality of hubs of the wireless communication system;
selecting, by the hub, a one of the plurality of upstream wireless networks based on the network selection rulebook to transmit data packets to the router based on the network selection rulebook;
wherein the network selection rulebook received by the hub is unique from a network selection rulebook received by at least one other hub of the plurality of hubs;
and
routing, by the router, the processed data packets to the hub through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/503,667Filed 18 Oct 2021
Published: US 2023/0121596 A120 Apr 2023
Granted: 27 Jun 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04W 48/18
Access restriction ; Network selection; Access point selection: selecting a network or a communication service
H04L 45/22
Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks: alternate routing
H04W 40/02
Communication routing or communication path finding: communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
H04W 40/06
Based on wireless node resources: based on characteristics of available antennas