US Patent 7864802 TCP-aware resource allocation in wireless networks

Patent 7864802 was granted and assigned to Sprint on January, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Sprint

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7864802

Date of Patent

January 4, 2011

Patent Application Number

11465206

Date Filed

August 17, 2006

Patent Primary Examiner

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Jason E Mattis

Patent abstract

A method and system, are provided for dynamically allocating channel resources in a wireless network. The wireless network may be a multi-rate network having a base station controller that adapts wireless channel rates associated with a communication session based on a TCP sending rate associated with a sending device. The base station controller includes a scheduler and optimization engine that probes the wireless network to gather TCP parameters, such as round trip times, etc. The optimization engine utilizes a long-term sending rate to generate a subset of channel rates from available channel rates associated with the wireless network. The scheduler engine utilizes the instantaneous sending rate to adapt the wireless channel rate by selecting a channel rate from the subset of channel rates.