Wireless communication device and method for adjusting maximum number of accesses thereby

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9585050-B2
Application number	US-201214368498-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 21, 2012
Priority date	Dec 27, 2011
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

A wireless communication device and a method for adjusting a maximum number of accesses thereby are provided. The wireless communication device comprises a network speed providing module and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access number control module, wherein the network speed providing module is configured to provide a speed at a network side to a WLAN side; and the WLAN access number control module is configured to adjust a maximum number of accesses of a WLAN according to the speed at the network side provided by the network speed providing module. Through the disclosure, communication quality is ensured for an Internet user by adjusting a maximum number of user accesses of Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi); and when the network gets worse, the access of an excess user is not allowed or some users are removed according to a user rule.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wireless communication device, comprising: a network speed providing module and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access number control module, wherein
the network speed providing module is configured to provide a speed at a network side to a WLAN side; and
the WLAN access number control module is configured to adjust a maximum number of accesses of a WLAN according to the speed at the network side provided by the network speed providing module,
wherein the wireless communication device further comprises: a network type monitoring module configured to acquire a network type and a change of the network type and notify the WLAN side of the network type and the change of the network type wherein the WLAN access number control module is further configured to: adjust the maximum number of accesses of the WLAN according to the network type and the speed at the network side; adjust the maximum number of accesses of Uie WLAN to 1 in the case of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 1x or General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), adjust the maximum number of accesses of the WLAN to 2 in case of Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution (EDGE); and in the case of a 3G network, decrease the set maximum number of accesses when the maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is less than the set maximum number of accesses, and increase the set maxim urn number of accesses when the maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is no less than the set maximum number of accesses.

2. The wireless communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the WLAN access number control module is configured to: decrease a set maximum number of accesses when a maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is less than the set maximum number of accesses, and increase the set maximum number of accesses when the maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is no less than the set maximum number of accesses.

3. The wireless communication device according to claim 1 , wherein the network speed providing module is configured to acquire the speed at the network side by reading and analyzing an underlying traffic file, and provide an interface for the WLAN side.

4. A method for adjusting a maximum number of accesses by a wireless communication device, comprising:
providing, by a network speed providing module of a wireless communication device, a speed at a network side to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) side; and
adjusting, by a WLAN access number control module of the wireless communication device, a maximum number of accesses of a WLAN according to the speed at the network side provided by the network speed providing module, wherein the method further comprises:
acquiring by a network type monitoring module of the wireless communication device, a network type and a change of the network type, and notifying the WLAN side of the network type and the change of the network type;
adjusting, by the WLAN access number control module, the maximum number of accesses of the WLAN according to the network type and the speed at the network side: adjusting the maximum number of accesses of the WLAN to 1 in the case of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 1x or General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) adjusting the maximum number of accesses of the WLAN to 2 in the case of Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution (EDGE) and in the case of a 3G network, decreasing the set maximum number of accesses when the maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is less than the set maximum number of accesses and increasing the set maximum number of accesses when the maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is no less than the set maximum number of accesses.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the step of adjusting, by a WLAN access number control module of the wireless communication device, a maximum number of accesses of a WLAN according to the speed at the network side provided by the network speed providing module comprises:
decreasing a set maximum number of accesses when a maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is less than the set maximum number of accesses, and increasing the set maximum number of accesses when the maximum number of accesses supported by the speed at the network side is no less than the set maximum number of accesses.

6. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the step of providing, by a network speed providing module of a wireless communication device, a speed at a network side to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) side comprises:
acquiring, by the network speed providing module, the speed at the network side by reading and analyzing an underlying traffic file, and providing an interface for the WLAN side.

Assignees

• Fang Xia
• Zuo Yanqiang
• Liu Wei
• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Fang Xia
• Zuo Yanqiang
• Liu Wei

Classifications

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04W48/06

  based on traffic conditions · CPC title

• H04W28/0247 Primary

  based on conditions of the access network or the infrastructure network (central resource management H04W28/16) · CPC title

• H04W24/08 Primary

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title