Association of diverse application logic across multiple distinct devices with priority bandwidth channel

• US 9,209,985 B1
• Filed: 07/09/2014
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Anuvu IP Holdings LLC, Anuvu Operations LLC (Marlin Holding Ltd. (Hong Kong))
• Original Assignee: Maritime Telecommunications Network, Inc. (Scisco Parent, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wise, Robert M
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Jianye
• Application Number:
  US14/327,456
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/147 for predicting network behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0864 Round trip delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8016 based on quality of service [QoS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/24 Accounting or billing

Abstract

A process for modifying application logic includes establishing a communication connection between the application logic or passenger devices aboard a moving vessel, and control logic aboard the moving vessel. The control logic monitors factors affecting latency of communications to or from the application logic to a network external to the vessel. Features of the application logic are modified to change between free to use and a payment model for use, according to the factors affecting latency. The feature modifications made only to particular application logic of a group of associated application logic on multiple passenger devices.

Claims

1. A process for modifying application logic of passenger devices aboard a moving vessel, comprising:

establishing a communication connection between the application logic of passenger devices and non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices;

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices monitoring factors predicting future latency of communications to or from the application logic of passenger devices to a network external to the moving vessel;

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices modifying features of the application logic of passenger devices to change between a free to use model and a pay to use model for use of the features of the application logic of passenger devices, according to the factors predicting future latency of communications; and

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices modifying between the free to use model and the pay to use model only features of the application logic having group association on multiple of the passenger devices, the group association configured in the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices.

2. The process of claim 1, further comprising:

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices centrally accessible to the application logic of passenger devices; and

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices receiving the factors predicting future latency of communications over a satellite channel from a central bandwidth manager for multiple other moving vessels.

3. The process of claim 1, further comprising:

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices monitoring a state of input and output queues to the network external to the moving vessel; and

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices communicating with the application logic of passenger devices to modify the features of the application logic of passenger devices to change between the free to use model and the pay to use model for use of the features of the application logic of passenger devices, according to the state of input and output queues.

4. The process of claim 3, further comprising:

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices communicating with the application logic of passenger devices to modify the features of the application logic of passenger devices to change between the free to use model and the pay to use model for use of the features of the application logic of passenger devices, according to a length of one or both of the input and output queues.

5. The process of claim 3, further comprising:

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices monitoring sensors local to the moving vessel to ascertain the factors predicting future latency of communications; and

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices communicating with the application logic of passenger devices to modify the features of the application logic of passenger devices to change between the free to use model and the pay to use model for use of the features of the application logic of passenger devices, according to the factors predicting future latency of communications.

6. The process of claim 1, further comprising:

applying the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices to modify the features of the application logic of passenger devices so that a first subset of the features of the application logic of passenger devices are switched from the free to use model to the pay to use model and a second subset of the features of the application logic of passenger devices are switched from being available to unavailable from the application logic of passenger devices.

7. The process of claim 6, further comprising:

a determination as to whether or not to apply the control logic aboard the moving vessel to modify the features of the application logic of passenger devices performed exclusively by the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices.

8. The process of claim 7, further comprising:

the determination as to whether or not to apply the control logic aboard the moving vessel to modify the features of the application logic of passenger devices made by the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices cooperating over a satellite channel with a central bandwidth manager for multiple other moving vessels.

9. The process of claim 1, further comprising modifying one or more of the following of the features of the application logic having group association on multiple of the passenger devices according to the factors predicting future latency of communications:

(a) transmitting or receiving digital photos over the network external to the moving vessel;

(b) transmitting or receiving streamed digital video over the network external to the moving vessel; and

(c) transmitting or receiving streamed digital music over the network external to the moving vessel.

10. A data processing system, comprising:

central non-transitory control logic aboard a moving vessel adapted to associate a group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices aboard the moving vessel with a single account;

the central non-transitory control logic adapted to allocate priority bandwidth on a wireless access channel from the moving vessel to a machine network external to the vessel, and to associate the priority bandwidth exclusively with the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices; and

the central non-transitory control logic adapted to set a pro-rata allocation of the priority bandwidth among different applications of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices in response to application activity taking place aboard the moving vessel.

11. The data processing system of claim 10, the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices comprising application logic installed on one or more of cell phones, laptop computers, and music players.

12. The data processing system of claim 10, each distinct application of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices identified by a passenger device identifier and an application identifier.

13. The data processing system of claim 10, each distinct application of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices identified by a unique application identifier uniquely generated for the distinct application of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices and a passenger device of the passenger devices that it is installed upon.

14. The data processing system of claim 10, the logic adapted to allocate the priority bandwidth adapted to allocate all of the priority bandwidth entirely to one application of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices in response to existing or predicted connectivity circumstances for the moving vessel.

15. The data processing system of claim 10, the logic adapted to allocate the priority bandwidth adapted to allocate the priority bandwidth pro-rata by bandwidth consumption to all applications of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices in response to existing or predicted connectivity circumstances for the moving vessel.

16. The data processing system of claim 10, the logic adapted to allocate the priority bandwidth adapted to allocate the priority bandwidth pro-rata by bandwidth consumption to a defined subset of applications of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices in response to existing or predicted connectivity circumstances between the moving vessel and the machine network external to the vessel.

17. The data processing system of claim 10, further comprising:

logic adapted to modify an availability of or a payment model for features of the application logic of passenger devices in response to available or predicted bandwidth between the moving vessel and the machine network external to the vessel.

18. The data processing system of claim 10, further comprising:

logic adapted to modify an availability of or a payment model for only features of one or more application of the group of distinct and disparate application logic on different passenger devices in response to available or predicted bandwidth between the moving vessel and the machine network external to the vessel.

19. A machine system, comprising:

non-transitory logic to establish a wireless communication connection between application logic of passenger devices aboard a moving vessel, and non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices;

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices monitoring factors predicting future availability of WiFi communications between the moving vessel and a machine network external to the moving vessel;

the non-transitory control logic aboard the moving vessel central to all of the passenger devices comprising logic to modify features of the application logic of passenger devices to change between a free to use model and a pay to use pay to use model for use of the features of the application logic of passenger devices in response to the factors predicting future availability of WiFi communications; and

the features of the application logic of passenger devices that is modified being a subset of application logic in a defined group of associated application logic on different passenger devices.