InterDigital Inc (IDCC)

[Gamco]

United States Patent 10,153,976
Goemaere , et al. December 11, 2018

Adaptive load balancing in residential hybrid gateways


Abstract

A residential gateway has a first, wired data connection and a second, wireless data connection. At least the second data connection connects to a network node which at least temporarily maintains simultaneous connections to at least one residential gateway and at least one mobile station. The residential gateway is communicatively connected to a load balancing controller. A method of operating the residential gateway for controlling load balancing comprises the residential gateway sending a registration request to the load balancing controller. The registration request comprises an identification of the residential gateway and an identification of the network node to which the residential gateway is communicatively connected. The residential gateway receives a listening address from which it receives load balancing control messages, and listens for load balancing control messages from the listening address. In response to a corresponding load balancing control message the residential gateway reduces or increases a maximum allowed data traffic on its second data connection.



Inventors:
Goemaere; Geert (Schoten, BE), Lafontaine; Olivier (Woluwe Saint Lambert, BE), Schoeters; Jurgen (Ranst, BE)

Applicant:


Name

City

State

Country

Type


THOMSON Licensing
Issy-les-Moulineaux
N/A
FR


Assignee:
INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS (Paris, FR)


Family ID:
1000003703006

Appl. No.:
15/552,280

Filed:
February 15, 2016

PCT Filed:
February 15, 2016

PCT No.:
PCT/EP2016/053088

371(c)(1),(2),(4) Date:
August 20, 2017

PCT Pub. No.:
WO2016/131737

PCT Pub. Date:
August 25, 2016


Prior Publication Data






Document Identifier

Publication Date

US 20180041440 A1 Feb 8, 2018



Foreign Application Priority Data





Feb 20, 2015 [EP] 15305262



Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04L 47/125 (20130101); H04L 12/2854 (20130101); H04W 28/08 (20130101); H04W 88/16 (20130101); H04L 45/22 (20130101); H04W 84/12 (20130101)
Current International Class: H04L 12/803 (20130101); H04L 12/28 (20060101); H04W 28/08 (20090101); H04L 12/707 (20130101); H04W 88/16 (20090101); H04W 84/12 (20090101)

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