APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MULTIMEDIA RECEPTION AND TRANSMISSION IN COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20080209167A1
• Filed: 05/07/2008
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altera Corporation (Intel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: QST Holdings LLC
• Inventors: MASTER, Paul L., UVACEK, Bohumir
• Granted Patent: US 8,504,659 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 712/29
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/12 using downlink control channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for configuration of adaptive integrated circuitry, to provide one or more operating modes or other functionality in a communication device, such as a cellular telephone, a GSM telephone, another type of mobile telephone or mobile station, or any other type of media communication device, including video, voice or radio, or other forms of multimedia. The adaptive integrated circuitry is configured and reconfigured for multiple tasks, such as channel acquisition, voice transmission, or multimedia and other data processing. In the preferred embodiment, the configuration and reconfiguration occurs to adaptively optimize the performance of the particular activity over time, such as to increase the speed of channel acquisition, increase throughput rates, increase perceived voice and media quality, and decrease the rate of dropped communication sessions.

Claims

1. An apparatus for adaptive multimedia transmission and reception, the apparatus comprising:

a network interface;

a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements including a first computational element and a second computational element, the first computational element having a first fixed architecture and the second computational element having a second fixed architecture, the first fixed architecture being different than the second fixed architecture; and

an interconnection network coupled to the network interface and to the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements, the interconnection network operative to configure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a first media functional mode of a plurality of media functional modes, in response to first configuration information, and the interconnection network further operative to reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a second media functional mode of the plurality of media functional modes, in response to second configuration information, the first media functional mode being different than the second media functional mode.

2. A method for adaptive multimedia transmission and reception, the method comprising:

determining matrix availability of a plurality of adaptive matrices to form a plurality of available adaptive matrices;

in response to first configuration information, configuring the plurality of available adaptive matrices for a first media functional mode of a plurality of media functional modes; and

in response to second configuration information, configuring the plurality of available adaptive matrices for a second media functional mode of the plurality of media functional modes, the first media functional mode being different than the second media functional mode.

3. An adaptive integrated circuit, comprising:

configuration information;

a plurality of fixed and differing computational elements; and

an interconnection network coupled to the plurality of fixed and differing computational elements, the interconnection network operative in response to the configuration information to configure and reconfigure the plurality of fixed and differing computational elements for a plurality of media functional modes.