Systems/methods of transmission over a plurality of paths
OwnerPeter D. Karabinis, Dimitrios P. Karabinisinventors
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Abstract
Embodiments are disclosed wherein a plurality of transmission paths is identified and then used by a first system in transmitting information to a second system. According to some embodiments, the first system is configured to perform operations comprising: transmitting information to the second system by transmitting first data over a first transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths; transmitting information to the second system by transmitting second data over a second transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths; and causing the second system to aggregate the first data with the second data that is received thereat via the first transmission path and the second transmission path respectively.
Claims20
A first system that is configured to perform operations comprising:
- identifying a plurality of transmission paths, at least two of which comprise a heterogeneous difference with one another, for relaying information to a second system;
- transmitting first information to the second system by transmitting first data over a first transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths;
- transmitting second information to the second system by transmitting second data over a second transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths;
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- causing the second system to augment the first data with the second data;
- wherein the first transmission path comprises a heterogeneous difference from the second transmission path and is physically distinct from the second transmission path;
- wherein said transmitting first information to the second system by transmitting first data over a first transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths comprises transmitting the first data to a first device that is associated with said first transmission path;
- and then, causing the first device to relay the first data to the second system;
- wherein said transmitting second information to the second system by transmitting second data over a second transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths comprises transmitting the second data to a second device that is associated with said second transmission path;
- and then, causing the second device to relay the second data to the second system;
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- wherein the first device is distinct, heterogeneously different and at a distance from the second device.
A method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of transmission paths, at least two of which comprise a heterogeneous difference with one another, for relaying information from a first system to a second system;
- transmitting first information by the first system to the second system by transmitting first data over a first transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths;
- transmitting second information by the first system to the second system by transmitting second data over a second transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths;
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- causing the second system to augment the first data with the second data;
- wherein the first transmission path comprises a heterogeneous difference from the second transmission path and is physically distinct from the second transmission path;
- wherein said transmitting first information by the first system to the second system by transmitting first data over a first transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths comprises transmitting the first data to a first device that is associated with said first transmission path;
- and then, causing the first device to relay the first data to the second system;
- wherein said transmitting second information by the first system to the second system by transmitting second data over a second transmission path of the plurality of transmission paths comprises transmitting the second data to a second device that is associated with said second transmission path;
- and then, causing the second device to relay the second data to the second system;
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- wherein the first device is distinct, heterogeneously different and at a distance from the second device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.