Autoband

• US 20030153338A1
• Filed: 07/24/2002
• Published: 08/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Perdiso Company Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Perdiso Company Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Herz, Frederick S. M., Smith, Jonathan M.
• Application Number:
  US10/202,732
• Publication Number:
  US 20030153338A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/517
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18506 Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/124 using a combination of metrics
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/125 based on throughput or bandwidth
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/16 based on interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Autoband'"'"'s distributed networking intelligence provides a novel architecture capable of dynamically reconfiguring communications pathways consisting of links whose transmission media are opportunistically and dynamically selectable. At least one constituent node in such automatically configurable transient pathways is mobile, for example, information (source) server, intervening router node(s), gateway server and/or client device. Additionally, Autoband'"'"'s ad hoc communications pathways may seamlessly and dynamically integrate (i.e., “graft”) into standard fixed node networks such as terrestrial networks, other wireless networks or combinations thereof. These communications may consist of point-to-point or multicast links. An economic market-based approach further assures allocation of available network resources (i.e., bandwidth and processing) needed to achieve the most optimally resource efficient communications pathway configurations for the totality of communications. Consequently, optimal network resource allocation and efficiency at a system-wide level is continuously achieved.

Claims

1. A method for opportunistically establishing an optimal communication pathway between a sender and a receiver wherein at least one of the constituent nodes within said communication pathway is a mobile node.