Determining the quality of service in a communication terminal device

• US 20120083220A1
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: Vodafone Holding GmbH (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Inventors: Rodermund, Friedhelm
• Application Number:
  US13/249,573
• Publication Number:
  US 20120083220A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/67.11
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for determining the quality of service of at least one service, whereby several parameters that represent the quality of service are detected in a communication terminal device. With the method, at least one second parameter is associated with at least one first parameter, and the detection of the second parameter is started as a function of the result of a comparison of the first parameter to a prescribed threshold value. Moreover, the invention relates to a communication terminal device which is suitable to carry out the method and which can especially be a mobile communication terminal device.

Claims

1. A method for determining the quality of service of at least one service, whereby several parameters that represent the quality of service are detected in a communication terminal device, the method comprising:

associating at least one second parameter with at least one first parameter; and

starting detection of the second parameter as a function of the result of a comparison of the first parameter to a prescribed threshold value.

2. The method recited in claim 1, comprising starting detection of the second parameter if, on the basis of the comparison, it is ascertained that the first parameter has exceeded or fallen below the threshold value.

3. The method recited in claim 2, wherein exceeding or falling below the threshold value indicates a deterioration of the first parameter.

4. The method recited in claim 1, comprising starting detection of the second parameter when several first parameters have each exceeded or fallen below a given threshold value.

5. The method recited in claim 1, comprising selecting a second parameter that potentially influences the first parameter.

6. The method recited in claim 1, comprising selecting a second parameter that potentially likewise changes if the first parameter changes, but without influencing the first parameter.

7. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the first parameter is representative of the quality of an output of acoustic and/or optical information to the communication terminal device.

8. The method recited in claim 7, the first parameter indicating a playback quality of a video data stream or of an audio data stream.

9. The method recited in claim 1, the second parameter being representative of the quality of the data transmission between the communication terminal device and a communication network to which the communication terminal device is connected.

10. The method recited in claim 1, comprising sending detected values of the first and/or second parameters by the communication terminal device via the communication network to a network server.

11. The method recited in claim 10, comprising starting the transmission of the detected values of the first parameter to the network server with the detection of the second parameter.

12. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media for storing computer-readable instructions, the computer-readable instructions providing a method of determining the quality of service of at least one service when executed by one or more processing devices, whereby several parameters that represent the quality of service are detected in a communication terminal device, the computer-readable instructions comprising code configured to:

associate at least one second parameter with at least one first parameter; and

start detection of the second parameter as a function of the result of a comparison of the first parameter to a prescribed threshold value.

13. A communication terminal device with an arrangement for detecting several parameters that represent the quality of service, comprising:

a terminal device that stores an association between at least one first parameter and at least one second parameter; and

the arrangement being configured to start the detection of the second parameter as a function of the result of a comparison of the first parameter to a prescribed threshold value.

14. The communication terminal device recited in claim 13, the communication terminal device being configured in such a way that detected values of the first and/or second parameters are sent via a communication network to a network server that is connected to the communication network.

15. A system, comprising:

a communication terminal device with an arrangement for detecting several parameters that represent the quality of service, the communication terminal device comprising;

a terminal device that stores an association between at least one first parameter and at least one second parameter; and

the arrangement being configured to start the detection of the second parameter as a function of the result of a comparison of the first parameter to a prescribed threshold value; and

a network server that is configured to receive values sent by the mobile terminal device.

16. The system recited in claim 15, the terminal device being configured in such a way that detected values of the first and/or second parameters are sent via a communication network to the network server, the network server being connected to the communication network.