Techniques for multipath bundling and determining Wi-Fi connections for multipath bundling

A multipath bundling system, comprising:

• a mobile terminal, comprising:
• a Wireless Technologies Database (WTD) configured to store information relating to wireless technologies discovered by the mobile terminal and usable by the mobile terminal to initiate a wireless connection;
• and
• a processor configured to run a multipath bundling protocol (MBP);
• and
• a network entity, wherein the network entity is an external server or a multipath bundling server, and wherein the network entity comprises a Self-Learning Wi-Fi Database (SLWD) configured to store information relating to network-known wireless technologies, including credentials for secured Wi-Fi networks learned from a plurality of mobile terminals;
• wherein the mobile terminal is configured to:
• after movement of the mobile terminal, detect one or more secured Wi-Fi networks having Wi-Fi credentials unknown to the mobile terminal;
• obtain respective Wi-Fi credentials for a respective secured Wi-Fi network from the SLWD of the network entity;
• determine that the respective secured Wi-Fi network is to be used for multipath bundling based on an optimization criterion, wherein the optimization criterion specifies that data is to be offloaded from a cellular path to a Wi-Fi path;
• and
• use the respective secured Wi-Fi network for multipath bundling based on the obtained Wi-Fi credentials;
• and
• wherein the WTD and the SLWD are configured to perform a self-learning process where the SLWD learns about Wi-Fi connections suitable for the mobile terminal from the WTD and the WTD learns from the SLWD about credentials for connecting to an optimal Wi-Fi network.