Link aware mobile data network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9036716-B2
Application number	US-201113310575-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 2, 2011
Priority date	Dec 13, 2006
Publication date	May 19, 2015
Grant date	May 19, 2015

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices are described for communicating data from multiple data terminals to an aggregator terminal over a communication link having changing link conditions. In some embodiments, source data is received at multiple data terminals, each in communication with an aggregator terminal over a communication link. For example, during a live newscast, one mobile camera may receive live video of an event from a first position while another mobile camera receives live video of the event from a second position. For various reasons (e.g., as the cameras move) each communication link may experience independently changing link conditions. Each data terminal encodes the source data (or store source data for later encoding) as a function of its respective link conditions, and transmits encoded source data over its respective communication link to the aggregator terminal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for adaptively aggregating data received over communication links having changing link conditions, the method comprising:
receiving a first encoded data signal from a first data terminal over a first communication link, the first encoded data signal being encoded by the first data terminal using a first encoding scheme as a function of a first link condition defining a condition of the first communication link;
receiving a second encoded data sign…

Assignees

• Kimmich Kevin
• Mo Fan
• Vanderaar Mark
• Viasat Inc

Inventors

• Kimmich Kevin
• Mo Fan
• Vanderaar Mark

Classifications

• H04N19/30

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N19/89

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N19/162

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L1/0014

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/6193

  Electricity · mapped topic