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US 2006/0215596 A1Published application
Network aware cross-layer protocol methods and apparatus
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDilip Krishnaswamy, Mousumi Hazra, Hsin-Yuo Liu
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus provide transfer rate adjustments for a device, which in an embodiment comprises a multimedia server. These rate adjustments are based upon determining by the multimedia server various quality of service parameters from a wireless link between two other network nodes, which may comprise an access point and a video player, respectively.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- obtaining quality of service information by a device relating to a wireless link;
- and
- adjusting a transmission rate of signals on a link from the device to a network node based upon the quality of service information, sniffed by the device, of the wireless link between the network node and a second node.
A device comprising:
- a server to couple to an access point, the server to transmit data packets to the access point;
- a packet data sniffer to couple to a node via a first wireless link to obtain quality of service information relating to a second wireless link coupling the access point to the node, the second wireless link to transmit the data packets from the access point to the node;
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- a processor coupled to the packet data sniffer to adjust a data transmission rate of the data packets from the server to the access point based on the quality of service information.
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A machine-accessible medium having associated instructions, wherein the instructions, when accessed, result in a machine performing:
- transmitting data packets of multimedia signals from a server to an access point;
- promiscuously sniffing by the server a first wireless link to obtain quality of service information of the first wireless link;
- and
- adjusting a transmission rate of the data packets of the multimedia signals from the server to the access point based upon the quality of service information relating to the first wireless link.
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A system comprising:
- a server coupled to an access point to provide data packets through the access point to a node via a wireless link;
- the server including:
- a data packet sniffer to obtain quality of service information of the wireless link for the data packets transmitted between the access point and the node;
- a processor to adjust a transmission rate of the data packets of the wireless link based upon the quality of service information;
- and
- a substantially omni-directional antenna to couple the server to the wireless link.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.