HIERARCHIES AND CATEGORIES FOR MANAGEMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF POLICIES FOR DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS TRAFFIC OPTIMIZATION

• US 20140364131A1
• Filed: 08/27/2014
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Luna, Michael, Bott, Ross
• Granted Patent: US 9,247,455 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/445
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/20 Traffic policing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0289 Congestion control load shedding arrangements in network planning H04W16/08; performing reselection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/12 using signalling between network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

Systems and methods for deploying and employing policies for wireless traffic optimization in a wireless network based on hierarchies are disclosed. One embodiment includes deploying a global policy set of the policies for wireless traffic optimization among mobile devices in the wireless network and deploying a first policy set of the policies among a first subset of mobile devices among the mobile devices. In one embodiment, the first subset of mobile devices meet a device-based criteria including one or more of, device type, device platform, or device model and any policy of the first policy set overwrites any policy of the global policy set in case of conflict when deployed on any of the first subset of mobile devices.

Claims

1. A method of utilizing hierarchies for managing policies for wireless traffic optimization in a wireless network, the method, comprising:

defining or identifying a first policy set among the policies for wireless traffic optimization as global policies;

defining or identifying a second policy set among the policies as device policies;

defining or identifying a third policy set among the policies as user policies.