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US 9,313,766 B2Granted
Bandwidth management (BWM) operation with opportunistic networks
AssigneeInterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
InventorsRobert A. DiFazio, Prabhakar R. Chitrapu
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Abstract
A BWM controller may be provide the capability to combine a lower speed, wide area network (WAN) that may have connectivity with an ONW that may have intermittent connectivity. This may be done, for example, to generate a multi-connection service that may provide connectivity that may take advantage of occasional high-speed ONW connection events.
Claims18
A bandwidth management (BWM) controller comprising:
- a processor, the processor configured to:
- receive a request for a data stream;
- determine an opportunistic network access point (ONW AP) in proximity to a route;
- determine that a first portion of the data stream should be received via the ONW AP and a second portion of the data stream should be received via a wide access network access point (WAN AP);
- receive the first portion of the data stream via the ONW AP and the second portion of the data stream via the WAN AP;
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- generate a reconstructed data stream from the first portion of the data stream and the second portion of the data stream.
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A bandwidth management (BWM) controller comprising:
- a processor, the processor configured to:
- receive a request for a data stream;
- determine an opportunistic network access point (ONW AP) in proximity to a route;
- determine that a first portion of the data stream should be sent via the ONW AP and a second portion of the data stream should be sent via a wide access network access point (WAN AP);
- send the first portion of the data stream via the ONW AP and the second portion of the data stream via the WAN AP.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.