Method and apparatus for providing streaming information to a wireless mobile wireless device

• US 20040192342A1
• Filed: 12/30/2002
• Published: 09/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ranganathan, Sowmyan
• Granted Patent: US 7,085,576 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1095 Inter-network session transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/288 Distributed intermediate devices, i.e. intermediate devices for interaction with other intermediate devices on the same level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

A method and apparatus, for acquiring at least mobile wireless device direction information (132), based upon at least two different mobile wireless device time-location entries (123) of a mobile wireless device (102). This mobile wireless device direction information (132) is then used to send different segments of streaming information (121A-C) to a plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories (120A-C), for communication to the mobile wireless device (102). Each streaming information network memory (120A-D) is associated with a different base station (118A-D).

Claims

1. A method for providing streaming information to a mobile wireless device comprising:

acquiring at least mobile wireless device direction information; and

sending different segments of the streaming information to a plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories for communication to the mobile wireless device, based on the mobile wireless device direction information;

wherein each of the plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories are associated with a different base station.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a multi-mobile streaming information network memory identifier based upon the mobile wireless device direction information, mobile wireless device current location information and base station network layout information.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining a segment of streaming information length based upon velocity vector information, and mobile wireless device current location information.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the sending the different segments of streaming information to the plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories is further based on mobile wireless device velocity information.

5. The method of claim 4 such that a portion of the different segments of streaming information sent to different multi-mobile streaming information network memories contain a sending overlapping portion of streaming information.

6. The method of claim 4 such that the different segments of streaming information further comprise packets having packet size and the packet size is determined based upon velocity vector information.

7. The method of claim 2 such that the mobile wireless device direction information is determined from mobile wireless device time-location entries associated with the mobile wireless device.

8. A method for processing streaming information at a mobile wireless device comprising:

storing segments of streaming information received from a plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories; and

discarding received overlapping portions of the segments of streaming information received from the plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories.

9. A wireless network element for providing streaming information to a mobile wireless device comprising:

direction determinator circuitry operative to acquire at least mobile wireless device direction information; and

multi-point streaming information delivery circuitry to send different segments of the streaming information to a plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories for communication to the mobile wireless device based on the mobile wireless device direction information, wherein each of the plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories are associated with a different base station.

10. A system for providing streaming information to a mobile wireless device comprising:

a plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories; and

a wireless network element operatively coupled to the plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories comprising;

direction determinator circuitry operative to acquire at least mobile wireless device direction information; and

multi-point streaming information delivery circuitry to send different segments of the streaming information to a plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories for communication to the mobile wireless device based on the mobile wireless device direction information, wherein each of the plurality of multi-mobile streaming information network memories are associated with a different base station.

11. A method in a wireless communications network, comprising:

streaming present information to a mobile wireless communications device from first network infrastructure supporting communications of the mobile wireless communications device;

sending future information to network infrastructure supporting communications of the mobile wireless communications device not supported by the first network infrastructure before the network infrastructure supports communications of the mobile wireless communication device;

streaming the future information to the mobile wireless communications device from the network infrastructure to which the future information was sent previously when the network infrastructure to which the future information was sent previously supports communications of the mobile wireless communications device.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

sending future information to network infrastructure more likely to support future communications of the mobile wireless communications device than network infrastructure less likely to support communications of the mobile wireless communications device not supported by the first network infrastructure;

not sending the future information to the network infrastructure less likely to support future communications of the mobile wireless communications device not supported by the first network infrastructure.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

sending the future information to network infrastructure includes sending the future information to at least one memory device accessible by at least one cellular base station that supports communications of the mobile wireless communications device;

streaming the future information to the mobile wireless communications device includes streaming the information from a base station accessing the memory device to which the future information was sent when the base station supports communications of the mobile wireless communication device.

14. A method in a wireless communications network, comprising:

streaming information to a mobile wireless communications device in a first cellular area of the wireless communications network;

providing information to be streamed to the mobile wireless communications device at a future time to network infrastructure that supports communications of the mobile wireless communications device in at least one cellular area of the wireless communications network other than the first cellular area before the mobile wireless communications device enters the at least one cellular area;

continuously streaming information to the mobile wireless communications device when the mobile wireless communications device travels from the first cellular area to another cellular area of the wireless communications network by streaming to the mobile wireless communications device the information previously provided to the network infrastructure supporting communications in the cellular area to which the mobile wireless communications device has traveled.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising providing information to be streamed to the mobile wireless communications device at a future time to network infrastructure that supports communications of the mobile wireless communications device in at least one cellular area of the wireless communications network other than the first cellular area based on a direction of travel of the mobile wireless communications device.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

providing information to be streamed to the mobile wireless communications device at a future time to only network infrastructure that are more likely than not to support future communications of the mobile wireless communications device.

17. A method in a cellular communications network, comprising:

streaming information to a mobile wireless communications device in a first cellular area of the wireless communications network;

continuously streaming information to the mobile wireless communications device when the mobile wireless communications device travels from the first cell to an adjacent cell by providing information to be streamed to the mobile wireless communications device at a future time to network infrastructure supporting communications in less than all cells adjacent to the first cell before the mobile wireless communications device enters an adjacent cell.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing information to be streamed to the mobile wireless communications device at a future time to network infrastructure supporting communications in adjacent cells to which the mobile wireless communications device is more likely to travel relative to other adjacent cells to which the mobile wireless communications device is less likely to travel.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing information to be streamed to the mobile wireless communications device at a future time based upon a present direction of travel the mobile wireless communications device.