Network Fusion Stack Aggregates Mobile Broadband and Wi-Fi Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile computing devices often experience high latency and bandwidth saturation due to limited connectivity options and radio frequency interference, leading to degraded user experiences as they can only utilize one mobile broadband network at a time, leaving other network-based applications inaccessible until the connection is available.
Innovation Solution
A network traffic management system that combines multiple mobile broadband interfaces, such as LTE and Wi-Fi, into a logical interface via a network fusion communication stack, allowing simultaneous use of multiple network interfaces to enhance bandwidth and reduce latency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple network interfaces are used simultaneously, then bandwidth utilization is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple network interfaces (mobile broadband and Wi-Fi) into a single logical network interface through a network fusion communication stack. This merging allows the system to utilize multiple physical interfaces simultaneously while presenting a unified interface to applications, thereby increasing bandwidth utilization without requiring applications to manage multiple interfaces directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The network fusion communication stack acts as an intermediary layer between the physical network interfaces and the applications. It manages the complexity of coordinating multiple interfaces by providing abstraction, handling interface selection, traffic routing, and coordination, thereby shielding applications from the underlying complexity while enabling multi-interface utilization.
2Device complexity
If a single mobile broadband connection is used, then device complexity is minimized, but latency increases due to connectivity limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple network connections (mobile broadband and Wi-Fi) into a coordinated multi-interface system. By combining these connections through the network fusion stack, the system can switch between or aggregate multiple connections to maintain continuous network access, thereby reducing latency caused by single-connection limitations without requiring complex application-level management.
3Productivity
If one network-based application monopolizes the broadband connection, then that application's performance is improved, but other applications experience loss of time waiting for connection availability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments network traffic into different portions that can be routed through different network interfaces simultaneously. The network fusion communication stack divides and distributes network traffic across multiple available connections (mobile broadband and Wi-Fi), allowing multiple applications to access the network concurrently through different interfaces, thereby eliminating the bottleneck where one application monopolizes a single connection.
Data Source
AI summary
A network traffic associated with a communication request within a computing device can be identified. The device can comprise of a first and second communication stack which can addresses a first and a second network interface within the computing device. The first network interface can be associated with a mobile broadband network and the second network interface can be associated with a computing network. A first and second portion of the network traffic associated with the communication request can be programmatically determined to be conveyed to the first and second network interfaces. The first and second portions of network traffic can be conveyed simultaneously to the mobile broadband network associated with the first network interface and the computing network associated with the second network interface.