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Method, system and apparatus for the transmission and adaption of data

AssigneeUnify GmbH & Co. KG

InventorsJurgen Totzke, Karl Klug, Paul Mueller, Tino Fleuren, Joachim Goetze, Ralf Steinmetz, Apostolos Papageorgiou, Ulrich Lampe, Phuoc Tran-Gia, Martina Zitterbart, Erwin Rathgeb, Adam Wolisz

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Abstract

A method for the transmission and adaption of data can include the steps of generating generic requirement documents, identifying a plurality of suitable communication patterns on the basis of the generic requirement documents, determining currently available transport options and their service quality across at least one communication network, and selecting a communication pattern from a plurality of suitable communication patterns based on the network transmission qualities of the at least one communication network. The method can utilize a first functional layer and a second functional layer that are integrated between a software application layer and a network access layer that each receive input documents that are independent of each other. The input documents of the second functional layer can contain transport-related information while the input documents of the first functional layer can contain application-related information. Systems and devices can be configured to facilitate use of embodiments of the method.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A communication apparatus comprising:

a computer device having non-transitory computer readable medium connected to at least one processor, the computer device being configured to distribute data from the computer device to a terminal device;
the computer device having:
a first functional layer of a network tolerant layer that is integrated between a software application layer and a network access layer to determine requirements for data of an application running on the terminal device requesting the data from the computer device;
and
a second functional layer of the network tolerant layer to obtain information regarding network connectivity between the terminal device and the computer device, the second functional layer configured to provide network description information for networks about which at least one communication link to the terminal device is formable to transport the data from the computer device to the terminal device;
the computer device being configured to match requirements of the application with network connectivity information of the network description information to select at least one first network about which to transmit the data to the terminal device;
the computer device configured to select at least one access point of the at least one first network selected for the transport of the data from the computer device to the terminal device via the second functional layer so that the data is transmittable in a first communication phase about at least one first communication link to be established between the computer device and the terminal device via the selected at least one first network.

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A communication system comprising:

a server computer device having a non-transitory computer readable medium connected to at least one processor, the server computer device being connectable to at least one terminal device;
the server computer device being configured to distribute data from the server computer device to the terminal device via a content aware layer and transport aware layer of a network transport layer,
the transport aware layer being configured to obtain information regarding network connectivity between the terminal device and the server computer device;
the content aware layer being configured to determine requirements of the terminal device requesting the data from the server computer device;
wherein the transport layer is configured to provide network description information for networks about which at least one communication link to the terminal device is formable to transport the data from the server computer device to the terminal device;
wherein the content aware layer is configured to determine requirements for the data of an application running on the terminal device requesting the data;
the server computer device being configured to match requirements of the application with network connectivity information of the network description information to select at least one first network about which to transmit the data to the terminal device;
wherein the transport aware layer is configured to select at least one access point of the at least one first network selected for the transport of the data from the server computer device to the terminal device about at least one first communication link to be established between the server computer device and the terminal device via the selected at least one first network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/261,908Filed 30 Jan 2019 · continuation
Priority: DE 10 2014 006 03825 Apr 2014
Published: US 2019/0173933 A16 Jun 2019
Granted: 12 May 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 65/762
Media network packet handling: at the source
H04L 65/61
Network streaming of media packets: for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
H04L 65/70
Network streaming of media packets: media network packetisation
H04L 65/80
Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication: responding to QoS

Family

Application14/685,693Parent of this division · filed 14 Apr 2015
Application15/696,361Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Sep 2017
US 9,787,743 B2Parent of this division · filed 10 Oct 2017
US 2019/0173933 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Jun 2019
US 10,250,660 B2Parent of this continuation
Application15/696,361Parent of this division
US 2015/0312305 A1Published application
US 2018/0013812 A1Published application
US 10,652,297 B2This patent

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