Communication terminal and cluster monitoring method

US8964584B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8964584-B2
Application numberUS-201113517117-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateFeb 23, 2011
Priority dateOct 12, 2010
Publication dateFeb 24, 2015
Grant dateFeb 24, 2015

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It is an object to provide a communication terminal capable of determining a cluster formation so as to promptly perform addition of a participant terminal, while maintaining the quality of a stream relay path. Cluster monitoring terminal ( 430 ) is an apparatus to determine a cluster formation in a network performing packet transfer according to terminal relay-type multipoint communication, and includes: a cluster quality calculation section ( 432 ) for acquiring cluster quality representing a small loss in a packet to be received, per a cluster; a cluster sustainability calculation section ( 433 ) for acquiring cluster sustainability representing ease of acceptance of a participant terminal, per a cluster; and cluster division/integration analysis section ( 434 ) for determining cluster division with respect to a cluster having low cluster quality, and determining integration with other cluster with respect to a cluster having high cluster quality and low cluster sustainability.

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The invention claimed is: 1. A communication terminal determining a cluster formation to construct a stream relay path on a cluster basis in a network performing packet transfer according to terminal relay-type multipoint communication, the communication terminal comprising: a cluster quality calculator that acquires cluster quality representing a small loss in a packet to be received, per the cluster; a cluster sustainability calculator that acquires cluster sustainability repr…

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What does patent US8964584B2 cover?
It is an object to provide a communication terminal capable of determining a cluster formation so as to promptly perform addition of a participant terminal, while maintaining the quality of a stream relay path. Cluster monitoring terminal ( 430 ) is an apparatus to determine a cluster formation in a network performing packet transfer according to terminal relay-type multipoint communication, an…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Lim Boon Ping, Karuppiah Ettikan Kandasamy, Muramoto Eiichi, and 1 more
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04L41/0803. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Feb 24 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).