Method and system for data transmission

• US 9,887,899 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2013
• Issued: 02/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ip Ot Sub Ulc
• Original Assignee: Open Text Sa Ulc (Open Text Corporation)
• Inventors: Sturrock, Oliver, Wentford, Timothy John
• Primary Examiner(s): Jean, Frantz
• Application Number:
  US13/737,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20130258880A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,854 Days
• Field of Search: 709229, 709203, 709231, 370252
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0002 by adapting the transmission rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0852 Delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/18 Protocol analysers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/11 Identifying congestion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/12 Avoiding congestion; Recovering from congestion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2416 Real-time traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/25 with rate being modified by the source upon detecting a change of network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/283 in response to processing delays, e.g. caused by jitter or round trip time [RTT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/31 by tagging of packets, e.g. using discard eligibility [DE] bits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

Embodiments as disclosed provided methods or systems for transmitting data over a network. Specifically, in certain embodiments, data for transmission is received and a datagram comprising at least a portion of the data can be created and sent to a terminal. Control data can be received from the terminal and the transmission of the data to the terminal adjusted based on the received control data. In certain embodiments both the datagram and the control data may be transmitted over an unreliable protocol. Thus, embodiments as disclosed may provide an increased level of reliability and adaptability to differing network conditions in conjunction with the use of an unreliable protocol.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a computing device coupled to a network, including;

a processor; and

a computer readable medium comprising instructions executable to implement a protocol module, wherein the protocol module is configured for;

accessing data for transmission in a memory at the computing device;

determining if the data is streamed data or transactional data,

creating, at the computing device, a datagram comprising at least a portion of the data, wherein a type of the datagram created is based on the determination if the data is streamed data or transactional data,

sending the datagram from the computing device to a terminal using an unreliable protocol,

creating, at the computing device, a request for control data,

sending the request for control data from the computing device to the terminal using the unreliable protocol,

receiving, at the computing device, control data from the terminal, wherein the control data was sent using the unreliable protocol and the control data was sent from the terminal in response to the request, and

adjusting the sending of the data from the computing device to the terminal based on the control data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the unreliable protocol is UDP.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the control data comprises a heartbeat datagram, an acknowledgement datagram or a latency datagram.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the control data was sent from the terminal in response to a setting in a header of the datagram and the setting was set based on the determination if the data was streamed data or transactional data.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein adjusting the sending of the data to the terminal comprises determining a data transmission rate corresponding to the terminal based on the control data and sending the data according to the data transmission rate.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein determining the data transmission rate comprises determining a heartbeat rate associated with the terminal based on the control data.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the heartbeat rate is a maximum interval between the sending of the datagram and a subsequent datagram to the terminal.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the request is part of the datagram, the request is created when creating the datagram and the request is sent when sending the datagram.

9. A method for data transmission, comprising:

accessing data for transmission in a memory at a computing device;

determining if the data is streamed data or transactional data;

creating, at the computing device, a datagrann comprising at least a portion of the data, wherein a type of the datagram created is based on the determination if the data is streamed data or transactional data;

sending the datagram from the computing device to a terminal using an unreliable protocol;

creating, at the computing device, a request for control data,

sending the request for control data from the computing device to the terminal using the unreliable protocol;

receiving, at the computing device, control data from the terminal, wherein the control data was sent using the unreliable protocol and the control data was sent from the terminal in response to the request; and

adjusting the sending of the data from the computing device to the terminal based on the control data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the unreliable protocol is UDP.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the control data comprises a heartbeat datagram, an acknowledgement datagram or a latency datagram.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the control data was sent from the terminal in response to a setting in a header of the datagram and the setting was set based on the determination if the data was streamed data or transactional data.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein adjusting the sending of the data to the terminal comprises determining a data transmission rate corresponding to the terminal based on the control data and sending the data according to the data transmission rate.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein determining the data transmission rate comprises determining a heartbeat rate associated with the terminal based on the control data.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the heartbeat rate is a maximum interval between the sending of the datagram and a subsequent datagram to the terminal.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the request is part of the datagram, the request is created when creating the datagram and the request is sent when sending the datagram.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising instructions executable by a processor for:

accessing data for transmission in a memory at a computing device;

determining if the data is streamed data or transactional data;

creating, at the computing device, a datagram comprising at least a portion of the data, wherein a type of the datagram created is based on the determination if the data is streamed data or transactional data;

sending the datagram from the computing device to a terminal using an unreliable protocol;

creating, at the computing device, a request for control data,

sending the request for control data from the computing device to the terminal using the unreliable protocol;

receiving, at the computing device, control data from the terminal, wherein the control data was sent using the unreliable protocol and the control data was sent from the terminal in response to the request; and

adjusting the sending of he data from the computing device to the terminal based on the control data.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the unreliable protocol is UDP.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the control data comprises a heartbeat datagram, an acknowledgement datagram or a latency datagram.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the control data was sent from the terminal in response to a setting in a header of the datagram and the setting was set based on the determination if the data was streamed data or transactional data.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein adjusting the sending of the data to the terminal comprises determining a data transmission rate corresponding to the terminal based on the control data and sending the data according to the data transmission rate.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein determining the data transmission rate comprises determining a heartbeat rate associated with the terminal based on the control data.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the heartbeat rate is a maximum interval between the sending of the datagram and a subsequent datagram to the terminal.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the request is part of the datagram, the request is created when creating the datagram and the request is sent when sending the datagram.

25. A system, comprising:

a computing device coupled to a network, including;

a processor; and

a computer readable medium comprising instructions executable to implement a protocol module, wherein the protocol module is configured for;

accessing data for transmission in a memory at the computing device;

determining if the data is streamed data or transactional data,

creating, at the computing device, a datagram comprising at least a portion of the data,

sending the datagram from the computing device to a terminal using an unreliable protocol,

creating, at the computing device, a request for control data,

sending the request for control data from the computing device to the terminal using the unreliable protocol,

receiving, at the computing device, control data from the terminal, wherein the control data was sent using the unreliable protocol and the control data was sent from the terminal in response to the request, and

adjusting the sending of the data from the computing device to the terminal based on the control data.