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Tobin E. Farrand0
David A. Bryan0
Douglas E. Hart0
William M. Gillon0
William T. Krein0
Arvind Vasudev0
Date of Patent
February 2, 2021
0Patent Application Number
160342620
Date Filed
July 12, 2018
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Patent abstract
Methods and systems for alternate network utilization are provided. Exemplary methods include: broadcasting by a hub an unsolicited announcement over a network to a plurality of devices coupled to a router, the unsolicited announcement being configured to cause at least some of the plurality of devices to store in a table a link-layer address of the hub as a link-layer address of the router; receiving by the hub a data packet from a device of the plurality of devices; and selectively directing by the hub the received packet to a first broadband network or a second broadband network using predetermined criteria.
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