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US 8,787,966 B2Granted
Multi-modem communication using virtual identity modules
AssigneeLiveU Ltd.
InventorBaruch Yosef Altman
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Abstract
Communication apparatus (22) includes an interface (41) to a plurality of wireless modems (42) and bonding circuitry (39), which is configured to receive multiple virtual identities in the apparatus, to load respective ones of the received virtual identities into one or more of the wireless modems, and to communicate over the air by simultaneously transmitting or receiving a data stream over at least the two or more of the wireless modems. Systems and methods for such communication are provided, as well.
Claims27
Communication apparatus, comprising:
- an interface to a plurality of physical wireless modems;
- and
- bonding circuitry, which is configured to receive multiple virtual identities, to load respective ones of the received virtual identities into two or more of the physical wireless modems, and to communicate over the air by simultaneously transmitting or receiving a data stream over at least the two or more of the physical wireless modems,
- wherein the virtual identities are downloaded to the apparatus from at least one pool of heterogeneous virtual identities belonging to at least two different wireless networks, and
- wherein the bonding circuitry is configured to select a number and combination of the physical wireless modems and the virtual identities to receive and load into the physical wireless modems responsively to conditions respectively associated with the at least two different wireless connections.
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A method for communication, comprising:
- providing a bonding device that includes an interface to a plurality of physical wireless modems;
- receiving multiple virtual identities from at least one server to the bonding device, wherein the virtual identities are downloaded from at least one pool of heterogeneous virtual identities belonging to at least two different wireless networks;
- loading two or more of the received virtual identities respectively into two or more of the physical wireless modems, wherein a number and combination of the physical wireless modems and the virtual identities to receive and load into the physical wireless modems is selected responsively to conditions respectively associated with the at least two different wireless networks;
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- communicating over the air by simultaneously using two or more of the virtual identities to transmit or receive a data stream over at least the two or more of the physical wireless modems.
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A communication system, comprising:
- at least one server, configured to maintain and distribute to clients multiple different virtual identities from at least one pool of heterogeneous virtual identities for communicating over at least two different wireless networks;
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- at least one bonding communication device, which comprises an interface to a plurality of physical wireless modems and is configured to receive two or more virtual identities from the at least one server, to load respective ones of the downloaded virtual identities into at least two of the physical wireless modems, and to communicate over the air by simultaneously using two or more of the virtual identities to transmit or receive a data stream over at least the two or more of the physical wireless modems,
- wherein the bonding device is configured to select a number and combination of the physical wireless modems and the virtual identities to receive and load into the physical wireless modems responsively to conditions respectively associated with the at least two different wireless networks.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.