US 11,695,636 B2 · Latency-sensitive network-traffic quality of service

Abstract

A telecommunication system can include routing devices, a bearer-management device, and a policy-management device. The bearer-management device can receive a request from a terminal to create a specialized bearer (SB) for a non-audio, non-video media type. The bearer-management device can determine that the request is associated with an authorized user, and then send a setup message comprising a Quality of Service (QoS) indicator to the policy-management device. The policy-management device can create the SB permitting data exchange between the terminal and a routing device. The SB can have QoS characteristics associated with the QoS indicator. In some examples, the terminal can receive a network address, determine an associated network port, and send a SIP INVITE message indicating the non-audio, non-video media type. The terminal can then exchange data on the network port with a peer network terminal.

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Dependent claims

A network terminal, comprising:

a wireless communications interface;
at least one processor;
and
at least one computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving a network address via the wireless communications interface;
determining a network port associated with the network address;
sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message to a network control device, wherein:
the SIP INVITE message indicates the network port;
the SIP INVITE message indicates a media type;
the media type is not an audio media type;
the media type is not a video media type;
the SIP INVITE message comprises a request Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) indicating a first network entity;
and
the SIP INVITE message comprises a To-header value indicating a second network entity;
receiving a SIP success message in response to the SIP invite message;
and
subsequently, exchanging data on the network port with a peer network terminal via the wireless communications interface, wherein the peer network terminal is different from the first network entity and the second network entity.

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A method comprising, by a network terminal:

receiving a network address via a wireless communications interface;
determining a network port associated with the network address;
sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message to a network control device, wherein:
the SIP INVITE message indicates the network port;
the SIP INVITE message indicates a media type;
the media type is not an audio media type;
and
the media type is not a video media type;
receiving a SIP success message in response to the SIP invite message;
and
subsequently, exchanging data on the network port with a peer network terminal via the wireless communications interface, wherein exchanging data comprises multiplexing data in at least two protocols on the network port, the two protocols including at least a media stream and a file-transfer stream.

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A non-transitory storage medium having programming instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a network terminal, cause the network terminal to perform operations comprising:

receiving a network address via a wireless communications interface;
determining a network port associated with the network address;
sending a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) INVITE message to a network control device, wherein:
the SIP INVITE message indicates the network port;
the SIP INVITE message indicates a media type;
the media type is not an audio media type;
and
the media type is not a video media type;
receiving a SIP success message in response to the SIP invite message;
and
subsequently, exchanging data on the network port with a peer network terminal via the wireless communications interface, wherein exchanging data comprises multiplexing data in at least two protocols on the network port, the two protocols including at least a media stream and a file-transfer stream.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Latency-sensitive network-traffic quality of service

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Abstract

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