Patent · US Active

Model for enforcing different phases of the end-to-end negotiation protocol (E2ENP) aiming QoS support for multi-stream and multimedia applications

US7602723B2 · kind B2 · utility

70Cited by
2References
44Claims
0Family size

Assignees

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateJul 21, 2004
Grant dateOct 13, 2009
Priority date
Expiry dateNov 10, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W80/00
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The underlying invention generally relates to the field of mobile computing in a networking environment with distributed multimedia applications and technologies. More specifically, it is directed to the concept of the End-to-End Negotiation Protocol (E2ENP) phases, which enable a pre-negotiation (802, 804, 805), fast negotiation (806) and a fast, dynamic renegotiation (808) of the end-to-end quality and capabilities for telecommunication sessions (102), for multiple configurations of two or a multiplicity of end peers and/or intermediate components in a consistent, reliable, and incremental way by enabling the mobile users' applications to efficiently and timely react to QoS violations. In this context, the invention proposes a model for defining user profiles and terminal capability information in such a way that hierarchical QoS contract specifications (1108), e.g. compelling correlations (804) across different sets of QoS contracts (1108) for related media streams (206), can be enforced and used for deriving negotiable information. As a reference implementation of this concept, this invention proposes a novel usage of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP, 910) standardized by t…

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.