Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130100228 | Optimizing Video-call Quality of Service - Techniques to optimize video-call communications are disclosed. The link quality capability of a wireless video-call session and the requirements of the video-call session are determined. The link quality capability determination is based at least on measurements through the entire communications chain, including user, client device, operating system, application, air interface, cell sector, and backhaul parameters. Those parameters may be determined from static profiles, dynamically determined or be statistically derived. Client device response may include adapting the rate of data captured by a video camera, microphone, or other data capture device used in the video-call session. For video-conferencing scenarios, communications throughput is optimized by consolidating video streams. | 04-25-2013 |
20130142043 | QUALITY OF SERVICE APPLICATION CONTROLLER AND USER EQUIPMENT APPLICATION PROFILER - Various topologies of a quality of service application controller and related techniques to optimize the communications performance an application executing on a device participating in a communications environment are disclosed. The communications environment may include a cellular network, an unlicensed spectrum network, or a combination of the two. The quality of service application controller observes one or more key performance indicators of the communications network, and retrieves a policy from a policy store specific to the application. The quality of service application controller then modifies the execution of the application and/or the configurable aspects of the communications environment to optimize the communications performance of the application. For example, the application's data throughput may be increased, the power draw of the application may be minimized, data requested by the application may be minimized, or the apparent response time of the application's response to a web service may be minimized. | 06-06-2013 |
20130239189 | Bootstrap Authentication Framework - A bootstrap authentication framework may automatically provide stored authentication credentials to an application server on behalf of an application. The bootstrap authentication framework may receive an access request from a protocol handler to access the authentication credentials stored in a subscriber identity module (SIM) of the electronic device. The access request may be initiated by an application that uses the authentication credentials to access a network service on an application server. In turn, the bootstrap authentication framework may provide the authentication credentials to the protocol handler when a digital signature associated with the protocol handler indicates that the protocol handler is allowed to access the authentication credentials. | 09-12-2013 |
20130258929 | Rule-Based Application Controller for Signaling Reduction - An application controller of a telecommunication device to receive a packet from an application of the telecommunication device and determine a signaling reduction rule associated with the application is described herein. Based at least in part on the signaling reduction rule, the application controller performs a signaling reduction action associated with transmission of the packet. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258966 | Application Controller for Quality-of-Service Configuration of a Telecommunication Device Radio - An application controller of a telecommunication device to determine, for a packet flow of an application, a quality-of-service rule associated with the application is described herein. The application controller then configures a data bearer for a wireless communication stack of the telecommunication device with a quality-of-service specified by the quality-of-service rule and provides a packet of the packet flow for transmission to a remote recipient via the configured data bearer. | 10-03-2013 |
20130286227 | Data Transfer Reduction During Video Broadcasts - The techniques and systems described herein are directed, in part, to interactions between one or more mobile device applications, mobile device modems (or communication hardware), networks, and other devices. In some embodiments, a device may record a video using a camera. The device may then increase a block size of a first portion of a frame in the video to create a modified video where the first portion includes a larger block size than a second portion of the frame of the modified video. The increased block size may reduce an amount of data used to transmit the modified video to another device using the network communication. | 10-31-2013 |
20130316716 | Device Triggered Channel Selection - A telecommunication device having a network interface module that is operable to detect an action at a network-driven application of the telecommunication device, which uses broadband Internet access to carry out its primary application functions. The network interface module then determines whether the detected action initiates a data transfer request corresponding to an application-specific rule identifying a timing sensitivity of the network-driven application. Then, based on this determination, the network interface module identifies and triggers a transition to a designated radio resource control (RRC) connected mode channel for a data transfer of the network-driven application to another network device, to improve a user's quality of experience (QoE) by reducing latency associated with the data transfer. | 11-28-2013 |
20140269611 | Communication Handovers from Networks Using Unlicensed Spectrum to Circuit-Switched Networks - Devices configured to initiate a handover of a communication session of a user device from an access network associated with unlicensed spectrum to a circuit-switched access network are described herein. The devices may provide a handover request to a server associated with the circuit-switched network, receive a response from the server indicating that the circuit-switched access network has been prepared for the handover, and instruct the user device connect to the circuit-switched access network to continue the communication session. The devices may initiate the handover responsive to measurement reports received from the user device. In some embodiments, the devices may also enable registration of the communication session, determine a session transfer number identifying a component of the telecommunication network which maintains continuity for the communication session, and provide that session transfer number to the server associated with the circuit-switched access network as part of the handover request. | 09-18-2014 |