Administrator for automatically adapting a transmission channel

• US 9,191,959 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2004
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Bindel, Frank, Brackmann, Ludwig
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria, Sharad
• Application Number:
  US10/542,102
• Publication Number:
  US 20060229069A1
• Time in Patent Office: 4,304 Days
• Field of Search: 455/445, 455/421, 455/422, 455/414, 455450-453, 4554221-425
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

A method and system for exchanging data using a wireless connection according to which a user with one or more portable terminals is located in the transmission and receiving area of at least one network and the terminal or terminals log on automatically to the network in order to establish a connection. A transmission channel for the data exchange is made available for the respective connection that has been established. The transmission channel is automatically adapted for the data exchange to the type of terminal and the type, for example, quantity, of data to be transmitted, by an administrator that is allocated to the network.

Claims

1. A method for exchanging data using a wireless connection, comprising:

providing at least one portable terminal located in a transmission and reception range of at least one network;

logging on automatically to establish a connection to the at least one network by the at least one portable terminal;

providing a transmission channel available for the exchanging of data within a framework of the connection established; and

monitoring a movement of the at least one portable terminal across a boundary of the at least one network,

wherein for the data exchange, a capacity of the transmission channel is adapted automatically to an amount of the data to be transmitted, by an administrator assigned to the network,

wherein the type of the at least one portable terminal and the type of data to be transmitted is provided to the administrator from the at least one portable terminal.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the administrator is a permanently installed terminal, and the at least one portable terminal gains access to the at least one network which is an external communication network via the administrator, and any terminal producing access to the administrator does so via a shortrange radio communication network.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

adapting automatically a bandwidth of the transmission channel based on at least one of connection costs and handling capacity of the at least one portable terminal.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the transmission channel from the plurality of available transmission channels based on at least one of connection costs and handling capacity.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting information regarding the type of data from the terminal to the administrator via a header of an email sent in advance.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the administrator obtains information regarding the type of data and bandwidth needs with aid of analysis of the data waiting for transmission.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein in the course of a connection, a change is automatically carried out between at least one of the transmission channel and other transmission channels, the transmission channel and the bandwidth, the bandwidth and other bandwidths, depending on at least one of the requirements and free resources.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

predefining the user profile in the terminal;

initiating automatically the user profile with a work cycle as soon as the terminal comes in contact with the administrator,

wherein the user profile includes a prioritization of at least one of data type, bandwidth size needed, and type of portable terminal type, so that based on the transmission channel available the administrator effects the prioritization.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the transmission channel is adapted automatically to a quantity of data to be transmitted.

10. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the external communication network is one of Internet and a telephone network, and wherein the short-range radio communication network is at least one of Bluetooth and wireless local area network (WLAN).

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission channels are determined for each data to be exchanged to ensure efficient distribution based on bandwidth requirements for the data.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the data having at least a predetermined size is automatically transmitted when short range radio communications is available.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the capacity of the transmission channel is further adapted automatically to a type of the at least one portable terminal and a type of data.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a first portion of the data over the transmission channel; and

transmitting a second portion of the data over a second transmission channel different from the transmission channel.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein:

the data includes a message, the first portion includes a subject of the message, and the second portion of the data includes a body of the message; and

the transmission channel and the second transmission channel use different communications protocols.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the transmitting of second portion of the data takes place after the transmitting of a first portion of the data if the capacity of the second transmission channel for the second portion of the data causes data to be exchanged at less than a threshold rate.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the adapted capacity of the transmission channel for the data exchange causes data to be exchanged at less than a threshold rate, the data exchange is delayed until additional capacity becomes available.

18. An administrator comprising:

a first interface to an external network;

a second interface; and

a router module,

wherein, via the first and second interfaces, a radio link suitable for data transmission is producible to a terminal present in a transmission and a reception range, and wherein the router module determines a type of data waiting for transmission and a bandwidth of the connection established being optimized in view of an amount of data to be transmitted over the connection,

wherein the amount of data to be transmitted is provided to the administrator via at least one of a predefined user profile and a message transmitted to the administrator from the at least one portable terminal.

19. The administrator as recited in claim 18, wherein the external network is at least one of Internet and a telephone network.

20. The administrator as recited in claim 19, wherein the radio link is a short-range radio link.

21. An administrator comprising:

a first interface to an external network;

a second interface; and

a router module,

wherein, via the first and second interfaces, a radio link suitable for data transmission is producible to a terminal present in a transmission and a reception range, and wherein the router module determines a type of data waiting for transmission and establishes a connection corresponding to the type of data to the terminal, the connection established being optimized in view of at least one of the terminal, costs, and transmission speed, and wherein the administrator implements a method for exchanging data using a wireless connection, including;

providing a user with at least one portable terminal located in a transmission and reception range of at least one network;

logging on automatically to establish a connection to the at least one network by the at least one portable terminal;

providing a transmission channel available for the exchanging data within a framework of the connection established;

wherein for the data exchange, a capacity of the transmission channel is adapted automatically to an amount of the data to be transmitted, by an administrator assigned to the network,

wherein the type of the at least one portable terminal and the type of data to be transmitted is provided to the administrator via at least one of a predefined user profile and a message transmitted to the administrator from the at least one portable terminal.