Autoband

• US 20070008927A1
• Filed: 04/26/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bhupinder Madan, Frederick S.M. Herz, Jonathan Smith
• Inventors: Madan, Bhupinder, Herz, Frederick, Smith, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 7,463,890 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/18506 Communications with or from aircraft, i.e. aeronautical mobile service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/22 Alternate routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/30 Routing of multiclass traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/12 based on transmission quality or channel quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/18 based on predicted events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/20 based on geographic position or location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/24 Connectivity information management, e.g. connectivity discovery or connectivity update
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• 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 of establishing a communication pathway between a source node in an ad hoc communications network and a destination node in said ad hoc communications network for transmission of a predetermined quantity of data, comprising:

establishing a communications link between said source node and an intermediate node, where said source node and/or said intermediate node is moving but said source node and said intermediate node stay in wireless communication range of each other in a selected wireless transmission modality long enough to permit transmission of said predetermined quantity of data from said source node to said intermediate node; and

dynamically reconfiguring an ad hoc communications pathway between said intermediate node and said destination node based on dynamically changing transmission conditions and available transmission modalities by dynamically selecting dynamically selectable links between said intermediate node and said destination node in respective dynamically available transmission modalities whereby each dynamically selectable link allows transfer of said predetermined quantity of data to a next dynamically selected link in said communications pathway.

2. A method as in claim 1, further comprising dynamically integrating said ad hoc communications pathway into an existing fixed node network, an existing wireless network, or a combination of an existing fixed node network and an existing wireless network using point-to-point or multicast links.

3. A method as in claim 1, wherein said intermediate node comprises a moving vehicle.