US 9,426,816 B2 · Apparatus, system and method for the transmission of data with different QoS attributes

Abstract

An apparatus, system and method are provided for transmitting data from logical channel queues over a telecommunications link, each of the logical channel queues capable of being associated with quality of service attributes, the method including determining available resources for transmission over the telecommunications link in a frame; selecting one of the logical channel queues based on a first one of the quality of service attributes; packaging data from the selected one of the logical channel queues until one of: a second one of the quality of service attributes for the selected one of the logical channel queues is satisfied, the available resources are used, or the selected one of the logical channel queues is empty; and repeating the selecting step and the packaging step for remaining ones of the logical channel queues.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A radio base station, communicating with a plurality of subscriber stations over a radio link established in a wireless network:

a prioritization engine (108) adapted to receive a packet, examine the packet to determine an appropriate set of quality of service attributes required for the packet, and classify the examined packet into one of a plurality of logical channel queues associated with one of the plurality of subscriber stations;
a radio link controller adapted to allocate at least one radio resource from a plurality of radio resources available in a current frame to the one of the plurality of subscriber stations, and use at least part of the radio resource to send at least one packet from one of the plurality of logical channel queues associated with the one of the plurality of subscriber stations.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/506,510Filed 3 Oct 2014 · continuation

Priority

CA 239337315 Jul 2002

Published

US 2015/0023295 A122 Jan 2015

Granted

23 Aug 2016

Term ends

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Classification21 codes

H04L 47/125
Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion: by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering
H04L 47/22
Flow control; Congestion control: traffic shaping
H04L 47/2433
For supporting services specification, e.g. SLA: allocation of priorities to traffic types
H04L 47/2441
Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS: relying on flow classification, e.g. using integrated services [IntServ]

Family

PCT/CA03/01043Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jul 2003

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US 7,333,435 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Feb 2008

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Application14/102,120Parent of this continuation · filed 10 Dec 2013

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Application14/292,380Parent of this continuation · filed 30 May 2014

US 8,817,805 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Aug 2014

US 2015/0023295 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Jan 2015

US 8,867,351 B2Parent of this continuation

Application10/521,581Parent of this continuation

US 2005/0249117 A1Published application

US 2008/0123531 A1Published application

US 2012/0218890 A1Published application

US 2014/0140351 A1Published application

US 2014/0269287 A1Published application

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Apparatus, system and method for the transmission of data with different QoS attributes

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Apparatus, system and method for the transmission of data with different QoS attributes

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