Routing diversified session via multiple network connections

• US 20040210671A1
• Filed: 05/05/2004
• Published: 10/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bruce A. Beadle, Douglas Scott Rothert, Michael Wayne Brown, Miguel Sang, Randolph Michael Forlenza
• Original Assignee: Bruce A. Beadle, Douglas Scott Rothert, Michael Wayne Brown, Miguel Sang, Randolph Michael Forlenza
• Inventors: Forlenza, Randolph Michael, Brown, Michael Wayne, Rothert, Douglas Scott, Sang, Miguel, Beadle, Bruce A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,551,563 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/239
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06

Abstract

A system for routing different data types along different client-to-network connection paths. A connection utility, at the client, monitors a data type being transmitted. When a first data type is being transmitted, the connection utility selects a most optimal (or efficient) connection route for that data type. The connection utility then assigns a next connection route for a second data type with different characteristics and/or routing requirements than the first data type. Differences in routing path that are factored into the criteria for selection include: wired versus wireless, level of security, transfer protocol, connection cost, speed, etc.

Claims

1. A method for providing optimal connection between a client and a network during a diversified session, said method comprising the steps of:

providing multiple connection routes between said client and said network;

routing a first portion of said diversified session via a first connection route;

dynamically routing a next portion of said diversified session via a next connection route in response to a change in a connection requirement of said diversified session, wherein each of said portions of said diversified session has a corresponding effective route and said next connection route is an effective route for said next portion of said diversified session.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

determining said effective route for said each of said portion of said diversified session.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said determining step further includes the step of dynamically monitoring a network session for the occurrence of specific pre-defined characteristics exhibited by particular data types, wherein each particular data type has an effective connection route for achieving efficient network performance and said dynamically routing step transmits said each particular data type via said effective connection route.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising the step of prompting a user for a selection of said effective connection route, wherein said dynamically routing step is initiated in response to said user selection.