Residential gateway with traffic scheduling
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsReza Iranmanesh, Abouzar Ghavami Pakdehi, Kaveh Mirzaei, Amzad Khan, Saeed Manii
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Abstract
The stability and reliability of broadband service connectivity improved by utilizing both wireline and wireless connections. For example, a residential gateway may continue to provide stable broadband connectivity to a service provider network (e.g., exceeding minimum quality of service thresholds) when subjected to a broadband fault (e.g., loss or degradation of data) by managing or utilizing both a wireline broadband connection and a wireless broadband connection.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- obtaining, by a traffic schedule manager, a performance of a wireline broadband connectivity, the wireline broadband connectivity being associated with a wireline broadband connection of a residential gateway located at a residential address, the performance of the wireline broadband connectivity being a partial loss of the wireline broadband connectivity;
- determining, by the traffic schedule manager based on the performance of the wireline broadband connectivity, a priority between the wireline broadband connection and a wireless broadband connection of the residential gateway;
- and
- providing broadband connectivity via the wireless broadband connection based on the priority, the wireless broadband connection being configured to only transfer data to one or more base stations determined to be in a vicinity of the residential address.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to:
- obtain a performance of a wireline broadband connectivity, wherein the wireline broadband connectivity is associated with a wireline broadband connection of a residential gateway located at a residential address, and wherein the performance of the wireline broadband connectivity is a partial loss of the wireline broadband connectivity;
- and
- provide broadband connectivity via a wireless broadband connection of the residential gateway based on a priority, wherein the priority is between the wireline broadband connection and the wireless broadband connection, wherein the priority is determined based on the performance of the wireline broadband connectivity, wherein the wireless broadband connection is configured to only transfer data to one or more base stations determined to be in a vicinity of the residential address, and wherein the priority is further based on quality of service parameters.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- obtaining a performance of a wireline broadband connectivity, wherein the wireline broadband connectivity is associated with a wireline broadband connection of a residential gateway located at a residential address, and wherein the performance of the wireline broadband connectivity is based upon one or more of bit rate, latency, latency variation, packet loss, and bit error rate;
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- providing broadband connectivity via a wireless broadband connection of the residential gateway based on a priority, wherein the priority is between the wireline broadband connection and the wireless broadband connection, wherein the priority is determined based on the performance of the wireline broadband connectivity, and wherein the wireless broadband connection is configured to only transfer data to one or more base stations determined to be in a vicinity of the residential address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.