US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on July 15 for "Handover methods and apparatus which support use of a cellular link as part of a handover between WiFi access points" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,603, issued on July 15, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Handover methods and apparatus which support use of a cellular link as part of a handover between WiFi access points" was invented by Jody Beck (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection between two UEs is identified by a single connection identifier. Different streams are transmitted over different wireless links with potential redundancy between streams. Initially a first WiFi link is used to communicate with the second UE. After the first UE decides it will handoff to a second WiFi AP it establishes a connection with a cellul...