Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for bandwidth aggregation for IP flow
- Patent Title (中): 用于IP流的带宽聚合的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13463611Application Date: 2012-05-03
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Publication No.: US08848640B2Publication Date: 2014-09-30
- Inventor: Alexander Reznik , Usman Ehtesham Gul , Michelle Perras , Prabhakar R. Chitrapu , John R. Cartmell , John L. Tomici , Hao Jin , Bartosz Balazinski
- Applicant: Alexander Reznik , Usman Ehtesham Gul , Michelle Perras , Prabhakar R. Chitrapu , John R. Cartmell , John L. Tomici , Hao Jin , Bartosz Balazinski
- Applicant Address: US DE Wilmington
- Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
- Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US DE Wilmington
- Agency: Condo Roccia Koptiw LLP
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04L12/709 ; H04W36/02 ; H04J3/04

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for bandwidth aggregation for an Internet protocol (IP) flow are disclosed. A sender may split IP packets on a single IP flow, and transmit the IP packets to a receiver via at least two interfaces. The sender splitting the IP packets over multiple interfaces may not send any signaling to the receiver. Alternatively, the sender may send information to the receiver for configuring distribution of the IP packets over multiple interfaces. The information may be carried on a binding update message, a binding acknowledgement message, or a binding refresh request message. The IP packets may be split and transmitted by a logical interface that sits between an IP layer and a layer 2, or by a bandwidth aggregation (BWA) middleware located between a transmission control protocol (TCP) layer and an IP layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130021968A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BANDWIDTH AGGREGATION FOR IP FLOW Public/Granted day:2013-01-24
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