Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Interactive WiFi connectivity for moving vehicles
- Patent Title (中): 用于移动车辆的互动WiFi连接
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Application No.: US12178410Application Date: 2008-07-23
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Publication No.: US08457546B2Publication Date: 2013-06-04
- Inventor: Ratul Mahajan , Aruna Balasubramanian
- Applicant: Ratul Mahajan , Aruna Balasubramanian
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04B3/36
- IPC: H04B3/36 ; H04B7/14

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided to enable high-performance Internet access on board moving vehicles using WiFi data communication protocols. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary wireless data communications environment comprises a ViFi module, an instruction set comprising at least one instruction set to process data for wireless communication between a cooperating component onboard a moving vehicle and other cooperating wireless components, and one or more wide-area wireless communications links. In an illustrative operation, the ViFi module can perform one or more wireless communications techniques to exploit macro-diversity and opportunistic receptions by cooperating WiFi base stations to minimize disruptions for mobile clients. The exemplary ViFi module can communicate data to and from one or more cooperating WiFI base stations such that the one or more base stations can operatively opportunistically overhear a packet, and can probabilistically relay the packet to the intended next hop.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100020774A1 INTERACTIVE WiFi CONNECTIVITY FOR MOVING VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2010-01-28
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