United States Patent 9,894,556
Tomici , et al. February 13, 2018
Methods, systems and apparatus for managing and/or enforcing policies for managing internet protocol ("IP") traffic among multiple accesses of a network
Abstract
Methods, systems and apparatus for managing and/or enforcing one or more policies for managing internet protocol ("IP") traffic among multiple accesses of a network in accordance with a policy for managing bandwidth among the multiple accesses are disclosed. Among the methods, systems and apparatus is a method that may include obtaining performance metrics associated with the multiple accesses. The method may also include adapting one or more rules of one or more the policies for managing IP traffic among the plurality of accesses based, at least in part, on the performance metrics and the policy for managing bandwidth among the plurality of accesses. The method may further include managing IP traffic associated with at least one wireless transmit and/or receive unit ("WTRU") among the plurality of accesses responsive to the adapted rules.
Inventors:
Tomici; John L. (Southold, NY), Chitrapu; Prabhakar R. (Blue Bell, PA), Reznik; Alexander (Pennington, NJ), Lopez-Torres; Oscar (Naucalpan, MX), Ye; Chunxuan (San Diego, CA), Patel; Milan (Harrow, GB), Livet; Catherine M. (Montreal, CA)
Applicant:
Name
City
State
Country
Type
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
Wilmington
DE
US
Assignee:
InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (Wilmington, DE)
Family ID:
1000003120752
Appl. No.:
15/239,059
Filed:
August 17, 2016
Prior Publication Data
Document Identifier
Publication Date
US 20160381594 A1 Dec 29, 2016
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Current U.S. Class: 1/1
Current CPC Class: H04W 28/0268 (20130101); H04L 45/123 (20130101); H04L 45/308 (20130101); H04M 15/66 (20130101); H04W 28/0289 (20130101); H04W 28/16 (20130101); H04L 45/38 (20130101); H04W 76/12 (20180201); H04W 88/02 (20130101)
Current International Class: G06F 15/16 (20060101); H04W 28/02 (20090101); H04L 12/721 (20130101); H04L 12/725 (20130101); H04W 28/16 (20090101); H04M 15/00 (20060101); H04W 88/02 (20090101)
Field of Search: ;709/224
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