ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COORDINATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING COORDINATED TRANSMISSION BETWEEN THE SAME

• US 20150189042A1
• Filed: 12/02/2014
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Guo, Xin, Wei, Yuxin, SUN, Chen, Qin, Zhongbin
• Granted Patent: US 9,894,179 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/125 by balancing the load, e.g. traffic engineering
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 Setup of multiple wireless link connections

Abstract

The invention discloses an electronic device and a method and device for implementing coordinated transmission between electronic devices. The electronic device comprises a coordination establishment module configured to send a coordination request signal to candidate coordination devices as well as determine coordination devices in accordance with a response of the candidate coordination device and establish coordination connection with the determined coordination device, and a data transmission module configured to transmit target data by a plurality of communication links, the plurality of communication links comprising communication links between the electronic device and the coordination device. The present invention can establish the coordination connection reasonably by initiating the coordination through the request and transmitting the data through the plurality of communication links by the coordination device, thereby effectively improving the data transmission speed through the plurality of the communication links.

Claims

1. An electronic device, including:

a coordination establishment module configured to send a coordination request signal to at least one candidate coordination device as well as determine at least one coordination device in accordance with responses of the candidate coordination device and establish coordination connection with the determined coordination device; and

a data transmission module configured to communicate for target data through a plurality of communication links, the plurality of communication links comprising communication links between the electronic device and the coordination device.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, further including:

a data processing module configured to merge data received by the plurality of communication links to facilitate to download the target data, and/or configured to partition the target data to facilitate to upload the target data by the data transmission module through the plurality of the communication links.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the coordination establishment module is further configured to send device parameter information to an external coordination control device and receive a candidate coordination device instruction determined by the external coordination control device, as well as send information of the coordination device determined by the coordination establishment module to the external coordination control device, the device parameter information including a position of the electronic device and/or information of the target data.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the device parameter information includes at least one of an external network rate for transmitting data between the electronic device and external communication network including infrastructures, an internal network rate for transmitting data between the electronic device and the coordination device and mode information on whether multi-frequency simultaneous transmission is available;

and the data transmission module is further configured to receive transmission parameters from the external coordination control device and transmit data in accordance with the transmission parameters, the transmission parameters comprises transmission task information of the electronic device.

5. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the data processing module is further configured to determine transmission parameters for coordinated transmission performed by the electronic device and each coordination device, and inform a corresponding coordination device of the transmission parameters which comprise transmission task information borne by the coordination device.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein a response of the candidate coordination device comprises an external network rate for transmitting data between the candidate coordination device and external communication network including infrastructures.

7. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein a response of the candidate coordination device comprises available memory space for the candidate coordination device and/or an internal network speed for data transmission between the candidate coordination device and the electronic device.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the data processing module is further configured to partition target data to be uploaded/downloaded in accordance with an internal network speed between the coordination device and the electronic device and/or memory space of the coordination device for data transmission.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein data received by the data transmission module through the plurality of communication links and data partitioned by the data processing module have identifications, the identifications used to combine the data so as to obtain the target data.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein a response of the candidate coordination device further comprises at least one of mode information representing whether multi-frequency simultaneous transmission is available for the candidate coordination device, a geographical location, a motion range, a motion speed, available electric quantity and available data traffic.

11. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the data processing module allocates transmission tasks of the coordination device for a plurality of allocation operations, each allocation operation is carried out based on partial data in the target data not transmitted and ordered in front of other data.

12. The electronic device of claim 2, further including:

a detection module configured to detect whether the coordination device changes at a predetermined period;

wherein the coordination establishment module re-determines a coordination device if detecting the coordination device changes; and

the data processing module is configured to reallocate the transmission tasks based on data in the target data not transmitted.

13. A coordination device, including:

a coordination establishment module configured to receive a coordination request signal sent by the electronic device of claim 1 and send a coordinated response to the electronic device for establishing coordination connection; and

a data transmission module configured to transmit data correspondingly based on a data transmission task received for assisting transmission of the electronic device.

15. A method for implementing coordinated transmission between electronic devices, comprising:

receiving a coordination request signal sent by the electronic device of claim 1 and sending a coordinated response to the electronic device so as to establish coordination connection; and

transmitting data correspondingly based on a data transmission task received for assisting transmission of the electronic device.

16. A coordination control device, including:

a communication module configured to receive a coordinated transmission control request containing device parameter information sent by the electronic device of claim 3; and

a determination module configured to determine transmission parameters for coordinated transmission performed by the electronic device and each coordination device in accordance with the coordinated transmission control request.

17. The coordination control device of claim 16, wherein the device parameter information includes a position of the electronic device and/or information of target data to be transmitted;

wherein the determination module is further configured to determine a candidate coordination device between which and the electronic device coordinated transmission is performed in accordance with the device parameter information, and generate a candidate coordination device instruction in accordance with the determined candidate coordination device; and

the communication module is further configured to send an instruction of the candidate coordination device to the electronic device, and receive information of the coordination device determined by the electronic device.

18. The coordination control device of claim 16, wherein the device parameter information contains information on target data to be transmitted, external network rates for data transmission between the electronic device and coordination device and external communication network including infrastructures, an internal network rate for data transmission between the electronic device and the coordination device, and mode information on whether multi-frequency simultaneous transmission is available;

and the communication module is further configured to send transmission parameters to a corresponding device, wherein the transmission parameters comprise transmission task information corresponding to the target data borne by a device for coordinated transmission.

19. The coordination control device of claim 18, wherein the transmission parameters further comprise time sequences for coordinated transmission by each device through external network and internal network, respectively;

and the determination module is further configured to determine a time sequence for each device for coordinated transmission in combination with whether multi-frequency simultaneous transmission is available for the electronic device and the coordination device.

20. A coordination control method, comprising:

receiving a coordinated transmission control request containing device parameter information sent by the electronic device of claim 3; and

determining transmission parameters for coordinated transmission performed by the electronic device and each coordination device in accordance with the coordinated transmission control request.

14. A method for implementing coordinated transmission between electronic devices, comprising:

sending a coordination request signal to at least one candidate coordination device as well as determining at least one coordination device in accordance with a response of the candidate coordination device and establishing coordination connection with the determined coordination device; and

communicating for target data through a plurality of communication links, the plurality of communication links comprising communication links between the electronic device and the coordination device.