Optimizing Network Performance for Communication Services

• US 20080139197A1
• Filed: 04/14/2006
• Published: 06/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Misra, Rashmi, Charity, Timothy
• Granted Patent: US 7,823,155 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/423
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0847 Transmission error
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0864 Round trip delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/087 Jitter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/12 Network monitoring probes
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13095 PIN / Access code, authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13096 Digital apparatus individually associated with a subscriber line, digital line circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13098 Mobile subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13103 Memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13106 Microprocessor, CPU
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13166 Fault prevention
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13376 Information service, downloading of information, 0800/0900 services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

A system to optimize network performance for a use application provides a probe application (20) that is provided by a network server (122) for downloading by a mobile device (102). The probe application monitors a level of performance for various use applications provided by the network for the mobile device, and reports (24) the monitored level of performance for at least one of the use applications to the network server. The network server collates the performance data from the plurality of communication devices and provides resource allocation instructions (22) to the mobile (102) to optimize a level of performance for the use applications for the communication device.

Claims

1. A system to optimize network performance for a use application on a mobile radio communication device, comprising:

a network server;

a probe application that is provided by the server for downloading by a communication device, the probe application for monitoring a level of performance of a plurality of applications provided by the network for the communication device;

a communication device that downloads the probe application and subsequently monitors a level of performance of the use application provided by the network for the communication device, the communication device transmitting the monitored level of performance for the use application to the network server,

wherein the network server collates the performance data and the performance data from a plurality of other communication devices and optimizes a level of performance of the use application for the communication devices in relation to the other communication devices.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the probe application in the communication device buffers the information for later transmission to the network server.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the probe application in the communication device transmits the information in real-time to the network server.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the use application being monitored is at least one of the group of web browsing, data downloading, data streaming, Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and real-time gaming.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the probe application monitors application performance characteristics includes at least one of the group of data throughput, bit error rate, page download time, number of re-tries, data delay, jitter, data latency, screen refresh rate, round trip time (RTT), and mouse click response time.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the level of performance includes a Quality of Service (QoS) determination for that particular use application.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the network optimizes performance by improving QoS class characteristics for the communication device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the network optimizes performance by changing a coding scheme allocation for the communication device.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the network optimizes performance by averaging a level of performance of a particular use application for a plurality of communication devices and improving a level of performance for those communication devices with a below average level of performance for that particular use application.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the network server transmits at least one optimization parameter back to the communication device, wherein the probe application modifies resource allocation requests form the communication device to the network server in accordance with the at least one optimization parameter.