Collaborative radio resources allocations to applications of mobile units
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsMostafa Tofighbakhsh, Vivek Gupta, Krishna Ramadas
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Abstract
Collecting state information about the resources of radio access networks (RANs) and the Access Point Names (APNs) enables this information to be provided to mobile stations which employ this information to determine which radio access technology (RAT) to employ for connecting to the wireless access network, and to determine which APN to use. This decision is made relative to each application that the mobile station is executing, and these decisions are, optionally, revisited periodically, or as significant changes in the state information are recognized.
Claims24
A mobile station, comprising:
- user interface circuitry,
- a memory that stores
- program modules for operating of the mobile station,
- program modules of value-enhancing applications,
- an air interface module;
- a processor that is coupled to said user interface and to said memory, and
- a radio access technology module interposed between said processor and said air interface, where the radio access technology module comprises a plurality of sub-modules, each constructed to interact with a radio access network pursuant to a different set of specifications;
- said memory further including
- a first module, interacting with said processor, that is instrumental in receiving and storing information in said memory from a wireless access network pertaining to network resources that may be employed by said mobile station, and
- a second module, interacting with said processor, that is instrumental in choosing, for each application of said value-enhancing applications that is requested by said user interface circuitry to be activated, based on said information that is stored by said first module, which sub-module of said sub-modules is used for communicating with said radio access network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.