Propagating communication awareness over a cellular network

• US 9,414,417 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2014
• Issued: 08/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Hassan, Amer A., Verthein, William George, Menezes, Pascal Francis
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Fayyaz
• Application Number:
  US14/454,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20160044716A1
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 455450-4563, 455/414.1, 455/422.1, 455/550.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/04 TPC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/04 Wireless resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/12 Access point controller devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/14 Backbone network devices

Abstract

Techniques for propagating communication awareness over a cellular network are described. According to various implementations, communication awareness of a communication session is propagated to an infrastructure component of a cellular network, such as a base station controller. Communication awareness of a communication session, for instance, can be employed to control various operational parameters of a cellular device that participates in a communication session.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, prior to initiation of a scheduled communication session over a cellular network, communication awareness that includes attributes of the communication session;

ascertaining, prior to initiation of the communication session, a resource policy to be applied to the communication session based on the attributes of the communication session; and

communicating, in a data stream that is separate from the communication session, session instructions to a mobile device that include one or more behaviors to be applied by the mobile device as part of the communication session.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the communication session is managed by a communication service that is separate from a cellular service provider of the cellular network.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the attributes of the communication session include one or more of a media type of the communication session, a codec rate of the communication session, or a packet error rate threshold of the communication session.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the resource policy is selected from a set of resource policies that are each applicable to communication sessions with different attributes.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the session instructions include a transmission power to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the session instructions include channel aggregation information to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the session instructions include dynamic frequency selection information to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

8. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the session instructions include dynamic channel assignment information to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

9. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

one or more computer-readable storage media including instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the at least one processor, cause the system perform operations including;

participating in a communication session that is implemented via a data session over a cellular network, the communication session managed by a communication service that is separate from a cellular service provider;

receiving, separately from a data stream of the communication session, session instructions that specify one or more behaviors to be applied as part of the communication session;

applying the one or more behaviors to data transmission of the communication session from a mobile device; and

responsive to the communication session being terminated, receiving different behaviors than the one or more behaviors to be implemented by the mobile device for subsequent data transmission after termination of the communication session.

10. A system as recited in claim 9, wherein the one or more behaviors specify a transmission power to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

11. A system as recited in claim 9, wherein said applying comprises changing a transmission power for transmitting data of the communication session based on the one or more behaviors specified by the session instructions.

12. A method comprising:

participating in a communication session that is implemented via a data session over a cellular network, the communication session managed by a communication service that is separate from a cellular service provider;

receiving, separately from a data stream of the communication session, session instructions that specify one or more behaviors to be applied as part of the communication session;

applying the one or more behaviors to data transmission of the communication session from a mobile device; and

responsive to the communication session being terminated, receiving different behaviors than the one or more behaviors to be implemented by the mobile device for subsequent data transmission after termination of the communication session.

13. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein the one or more behaviors specify a transmission power to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

14. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein said applying comprises changing a transmission power for transmitting data of the communication session based on the one or more behaviors specified by the session instructions.

15. A method as described in claim 12, wherein the one or more behaviors specify channel aggregation information to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

16. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein said applying comprises aggregating transmission channels for transmitting data of the communication session based on the one or more behaviors specified by the session instructions.

17. A method as described in claim 12, wherein the one or more behaviors specify dynamic frequency selection information to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

18. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein said applying comprises changing a transmission frequency for transmitting data of the communication session based on the one or more behaviors specified by the session instructions.

19. A method as described in claim 12, wherein the one or more behaviors specify dynamic channel assignment information to be utilized by the mobile device for transmitting data of the communication session.

20. A method as recited in claim 12, wherein said applying comprises changing a transmission channel for transmitting data of the communication session based on the one or more behaviors specified by the session instructions.