Methods and apparatus for enhancing wireless data network telephony, including quality of service monitoring and control

• US 6,795,406 B2
• Filed: 09/17/2001
• Issued: 09/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/1999
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Incorporated (Genesys Cloud Services Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Incorporated (Genesys Cloud Services Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kikinis, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Pezzlo, John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tsegaye, Saba
• Application Number:
  US09/955,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20020015398A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: 370/286, 370/329, 370/338, 370/349, 370/278, 370/280, 370/282, 370/289, 370/294, 370/328, 370/341, 455/453, 455/445, 455/450, 455/451, 455/452
• US Class Current: 370/286
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/287 Remote access server, e.g. BRAS
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/006 Networks other than PSTN/ISDN providing telephone service, e.g. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) , including next generation networks with a packet-switched transport layer H04L65/00 takes precedence; aspects not specific to the type of network H04M3/00; special services in those networks H04M3/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A system for wireless communication comprises an architecture of routers connected to a network and having connected transceivers for wireless transmission and reception of data, and a plurality of hand-held communicators adapted for users to communicate with the network through the routers. The system is adapted to provide wireless Data Network Telephony (DNT), and the hand-held communicators execute Quality of Service (QoS) code adapted to prioritize DNT packet code over all non-DNT traffic, thereby preserving the real-time nature of the DNT code.

Claims

1. A hand-held communication device, comprising:

microphone and speaker apparatus including converters for rendering audio data as audible speech, and for rendering audible speech as audio data;

a communication interface comprising circuitry for receiving and sending the audio data on a cell-phone network as Data Network Telephony (DNT) packets; and

circuitry including Digital Signal Processor (DSP) recognizing human speech and processing audio data for DNT calls, the circuitry prioritizing DNT data over any other data when transmitting on the cell-phone network, allowing substantially only human speech to be prepared as DNT packets for transmission.

2. The hand-held communication device of claim 1 wherein the device is implemented in the form of a cell phone.

3. The hand-held communication device of claim 1 further comprising a noise cancellation microphone and speaker apparatus for creating a noise reduction zone in the region of a principle speech input microphone.