Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for data repair in a system capable of one-to-many transmission. The method comprises transmitting data from a sender to at least one receiver and provides for various sender driven or receiver driven repair methods of missing data.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a mechanism for performing multicast transmission in a cellular network. In order to enable establishment of resources only in cells containing members of the multicast group and to avoid congestion on the uplink channel, a multicast service notification is transmitted to mobile stations, thereby informing members of the multicast group of an upcoming multicast session. The moment for a response to said multicast service notification is selected in the mobile stations and a presence report is sent from at least one of said mobile stations at the response moment of said at least one mobile station. The presence report or reports are received within a radio access network, and radio resources are established for multicast transmission in a cell of the cellular network when the presence report(s) received in said cell meet(s) predetermined criteria.
Abstract:
A method and system for establishing a dynamic content delivery system (DCDS) is disclosed. In one embodiment, a Bluetooth enabled mobile communications unit is used to communicate with a server in order to make a request for the delivery of specific content, such as a song, video, or the like, to a separate output device, such as a loudspeaker, a display screen, or the like. In another embodiment the content is delivered back to the requesting mobile communications device. In some embodiments, hybrid networks may be used for requesting and delivering content. A narrowband, bi-directional, unicast network may be used for requesting content and acknowledging the requests, while a broadband, unidirectional, multicast network may be used to deliver the requested content to the requesting client device. The order in which the content is delivered may be modified by user requests according to a predetermined algorithm.
Abstract:
A compression context for a plurality of packets is established with a receiving device. Each of these packets is associated with one or more reliable multicast protocols, such as the Layered Coding Transform (LCT) protocol, the Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) protocol, the FLUTE protocol, the MUPPET protocol, and the NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) protocol. Upon establishment of the compression context, a compressed packet is generated for one of the plurality of packets and transmitted to the receiving device. The compressed packet has a reduced number of bits in its header. Upon receipt, the receiving device decompresses the compressed packet based on the compression context.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method, system, transmitter, network element, receiver and software application for a system capable of point-to-multipoint transmission, where one or more data packets are transmitted from a transmitter to one or more receivers, where at least at one specific receiver of said receivers, a reception of repair data packets is required, where repair information is signaled to a repair server in order to trigger a transmission of the repair data packets, and where the repair information comprises information related to the number of transmitted data packets correctly received at the specific receiver. The system may for instance be the 3GPP Multimedia Broadcast Multicast System, the transmission of data packets may for instance be controlled by the File Delivery Over Unidirectional Transport protocol and the signaling of the repair information may for instance be controlled by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a mechanism for performing multicast transmission in a cellular network. In order to enable establishment of resources only in cells containing members of the multicast group and to avoid congestion on the uplink channel, a multicast service notification is transmitted to mobile stations, thereby informing members of the multicast group of an upcoming multicast session. The moment for a response to said multicast service notification is selected in the mobile stations and a presence report is sent from at least one of said mobile stations at the response moment of said at least one mobile station. The presence report or reports are received within a radio access network, and radio resources are established for multicast transmission in a cell of the cellular network when the presence report(s) received in said cell meet(s) predetermined criteria.
Abstract:
A method for increasing a user's perceived access speed to content available from a data network. The method utilizes a multicast channel and the selection of group data to be sent over that channel.
Abstract:
A compression context for a plurality of packets is established with a receiving device. Each of these packets is associated with one or more reliable multicast protocols, such as the Layered Coding Transform (LCT) protocol, the Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) protocol, the FLUTE protocol, the MUPPET protocol, and the NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast (NORM) protocol. Upon establishment of the compression context, a compressed packet is generated for one of the plurality of packets and transmitted to the receiving device. The compressed packet has a reduced number of bits in its header. Upon receipt, the receiving device decompresses the compressed packet based on the compression context.
Abstract:
A method, computer program/product, system, transmitter and receiver suited for the transfer of at least one data object (50) to the receiver (101) are shown, wherein the at least one data object is associated with a respective data envelope (51) that serves for at least one of identifying, versioning and time bounding the at least one data object, the method embedding (110) the at least one data envelope and a representation of the at least one data object into a compound container object (52), and transferring (112) the compound containerobject to the receiver. The at least one data object may be a metadata object that represents a description of services and/or content that can be used by the receiver, and the compound container object is furnished with a compound container envelope (53) that serves for at least one of identifying, versioning and time bounding of the compound container object.
Abstract:
A broadband digital broadcast 1 network is described in which the cellular topology is dynamically configurable to maintain spectral efficiency. The reconfiguration of the topology occurs in response to changes in the demand for content. Thus, a single cell could be defined to cover an area in which the same content is being delivered to a substantial number of users. Conversely, a large number of cells could be defined to cover an area in which a substantial number of users are each having different content delivered to them.