Cross-session network communication configuration

• US 10,715,454 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2018
• Issued: 07/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC (Strong Force Intellectual Capital, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC (Strong Force Intellectual Capital, LLC)
• Inventors: Ho, Tracey, Segui, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Maniwang, Joseph R
• Application Number:
  US16/164,022
• Publication Number:
  US 20190052569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 635 Days
• Field of Search: 709228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0002 by adapting the transmission rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0009 by adapting the channel coding H04L1/1812 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0041 Arrangements at the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0076 Distributed coding, e.g. network coding, involving channel coding coding in both space and time H04L1/0618; cooperative diversity H04B7/022
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1819 with retransmission of additional or different redundancy
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/1858 Transmission or retransmission of more than one copy of acknowledgement message
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2001/0097 Relays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0829 Packet loss
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0864 Round trip delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/22 Alternate routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/24 Multipath
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/52 Multiprotocol routers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/74 Address processing for routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/127 by using congestion prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/16 in connection oriented networks, e.g. frame relay
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/20 Traffic policing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/263 Rate modification at the source after receiving feedback
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/27 Evaluation or update of window size, e.g. using information derived from acknowledged [ACK] packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/283 in response to processing delays, e.g. caused by jitter or round trip time [RTT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/30 in combination with information about buffer occupancy at either end or at transit nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/351 : for local area network [LAN], e.g. Ethernet switches
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/552 : by ensuring the integrity of packets received through redundant connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/90 : Buffering arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0055 : Physical resource allocation for ACK/NACK for physical mapping arrangements in ARQ protocols H04L1/1861
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 : Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 : specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 : Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 : Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/161 : Implementation details of TCP/IP or UDP/IP stack architecture; Specification of modified or new header fields
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 : for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 : Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/535 : based on resource usage policies

Abstract

In a general aspect, a method for data communication over a data channel on a data path between a first node and a second node includes maintaining data characterizing one or more current or previous data communication connections traversing the data channel and initiating a new data communication connection between the first node and the second node including configuring the new data communication connection at least in part according to the maintained data.

Claims

1. A method for data communication over a data channel on a data path between a first computing device and a second computing device utilizing a transport layer protocol, the method comprising:

maintaining, at the first computing device, data corresponding to one or more current data communication connections between the first and second computing devices, the maintained data comprising values of one or more communication protocol parameters corresponding to the one or more current data communication connections;

initiating, at the first computing device, a new data communication connection between the first computing device and the second computing device including configuring the new data communication connection at least in part according to the maintained data by utilizing the values of the one or more communication protocol parameters as initial communication protocol parameters for the new data communication connection; and

transmitting, from the first computing device and to the second computing device, data via the new data communication connection.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adjusting, at the first computing device, the initial communication protocol parameters during the transmitting of the data based on feedback received from the second computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more communication protocol parameters include one or more of:

a congestion window size;

a port number; and

a pacing interval.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more communication protocol parameters include forward error correction parameters comprising at least one of a block size, an interleaving factor, and a code rate.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, from the first computing device and to the second computing device, the values of the one or more communication protocol parameters.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the values of one or more communication protocol parameters further correspond to one or more previous data communication connections between the first computing device and the second computing device.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

retrieving data corresponding to the one or more previous data communication connections between the first computing device and the second computing device; and

determining the values of one or more communication protocol parameters based on the data corresponding to the one or more previous data communication connections and the data corresponding to the one or more current data communication connections.

8. A first computing device configured for data communication over a data channel on a data path with a second computing device utilizing a transport layer protocol, the first computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

maintaining data corresponding to one or more current data communication connections between the first and second computing devices, the maintained data comprising values of one or more communication protocol parameters corresponding to the one or more current data communication connections;

initiating a new data communication connection between the first computing device and the second computing device including configuring the new data communication connection at least in part according to the maintained data by utilizing the values of the one or more communication protocol parameters as initial communication protocol parameters for the new data communication connection; and

transmitting, to the second computing device, data via the new data communication connection.

9. The first computing device of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

adjusting the initial communication protocol parameters during the transmitting of the data based on feedback received from the second computing device.

10. The first computing device of claim 8, wherein the one or more communication protocol parameters include one or more of:

a congestion window size;

a port number; and

a pacing interval.

11. The first computing device of claim 8, wherein the one or more communication protocol parameters include forward error correction parameters comprising at least one of a block size, an interleaving factor, and a code rate.

12. The first computing device of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting, to the second computing device, the values of the one or more communication protocol parameters.

13. The first computing device of claim 8, wherein the values of one or more communication protocol parameters further correspond to one or more previous data communication connections between the first computing device and the second computing device.

14. The first computing device of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

retrieving data corresponding to the one or more previous data communication connections between the first computing device and the second computing device; and

determining the values of one or more communication protocol parameters based on the data corresponding to the one or more previous data communication connections and the data corresponding to the one or more current data communication connections.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for data communication over a data channel on a data path between a first computing device and a second computing device utilizing a transport layer protocol, the operations comprising:

maintaining data corresponding to one or more current data communication connections between the first and second computing devices, the maintained data comprising values of one or more communication protocol parameters corresponding to the one or more current data communication connections;

initiating a new data communication connection between the first computing device and the second computing device including configuring the new data communication connection at least in part according to the maintained data by utilizing the values of the one or more communication protocol parameters as initial communication protocol parameters for the new data communication connection; and

transmitting, to the second computing device, data via the new data communication connection.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

adjusting the initial communication protocol parameters during the transmitting of the data based on feedback received from the second computing device.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more communication protocol parameters include one or more of:

a congestion window size;

a port number; and

a pacing interval.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more communication protocol parameters include forward error correction parameters comprising at least one of a block size, an interleaving factor, and a code rate.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting, to the second computing device, the values of the one or more communication protocol parameters.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the values of one or more communication protocol parameters further correspond to one or more previous data communication connections between the first computing device and the second computing device.