Mobile router with rate limiting
AssigneeAuto MFT Mobile, Inc.
InventorsDOUGLAS S. MOELLER, Ronald W. Pashby
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Abstract
One embodiment of a mobile router, comprises: a wireless wide area network interface to access a cellular network and operable to receive downloaded data; a memory comprising a data rate limiting rule; and a processor. The processor is operable to generate usage data based on the quantity of the downloaded data during a predetermined time period, and is operable to control the data rate of downloaded data based on the usage data and the data rate limiting rule.
Claims35
A mobile router, comprising:
- a wireless wide area network interface to access a cellular network and operable to receive downloaded data ;
- a memory, said memory comprising a data rate limiting rule;
- and
- a processor;
- said processor is operable to generate usage data based on the quantity of said downloaded data during a predetermined time period, and is operable to control the data rate of downloaded data based on said usage data and said data rate limiting rule.
A mobile router, comprising:
- a wireless wide area network interface to access a cellular network to receive download data;
- a memory, said memory comprising a plurality of data rate limiting rules;
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- a processor;
- said processor is operable to generate usage data based on the quantity of said downloaded data during a predetermined time period;
- said processor is operable to control the data rate of downloaded data based on said usage data and said plurality of data rate limiting rules.
A mobile router comprising:
- a wireless wide area network interface to access a cellular network;
- a data rate limiting rule;
- a processor operable to utilize said data rate limiting rule to control the data rate of data transferred via said cellular network.
A mobile router receiving data services from a service provider via a cellular network provided by a cellular network carrier, said mobile router comprising:
- a wireless wide area network interface to access a cellular network;
- a processor operable to control the data rate of data transferred via said cellular network;
- data rate information received from said service provider;
- said processor is operable to initially control said data rate at a first data rate;
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- said processor is operable to utilize said data rate information to determine the data rate of data subsequently transferred via said cellular network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.