Avaya Technology LLC

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Quantum Corporation

Georgene M Nielsen

John F Harris

John C Moran

Dan W Quintana

The system for load balancing based on class of service for wireless communication networks dynamically balances the traffic load among a plurality of cell sites by using multiple criteria to determine which cell site is selected to provide service to a mobile subscriber station. The load balancing process is executed in response to the wireless communication network assigning a cell site to provide service to a mobile subscriber station based upon a first criteria. It is then determined whether this cell site assignment results in secondary criteria being exceeded. If secondary criteria are exceeded by the assignment, the load balancing process is activated to reallocate mobile subscriber stations among the cell sites as a function of both the traffic load that exists in the cell sites as well as the class of service of the mobile subscriber stations served by the cell sites. Thus, the subscribers can pay a premium price for a higher quality of service, which gives preference to this mobile subscriber station in being assigned to a cell that has a greater signal strength and therefore a higher quality of service.

System for load balancing based on class of service for wireless communication networks

A system for assign a cellular site to provide wireless telephone service to a mobile telephone set based upon two criteria. This invention assigns a cellular site to provide service based upon a primary criteria, such as signal strength between the cellular site and the mobile telephone set. A secondary criteria, such as load of the cellular site, is then checked to determine whether a threshold has been exceeded by the assignment of the cellular site to provide service. If the threshold for the secondary criteria is exceeded by the assignment, another cellular site is assigned to provide service to the mobile telephone set.

Load balancing for cellular and wireless systems

Transmitting via email by a store computer controlling a point of service terminal (POS) terminal, at which a transaction has been performed, transaction data to a personal computer of a customer making the transaction. The transaction data includes the actual items purchased with price and the grocery code of each item. The transaction data is transmitted as an email message via the Internet. The communication address of the customer computer is identified to the store computer by a store card that is utilized for other purposes or through the use of a standard credit card.

Communication of transaction data via the internet

An improved transverse pressurization contour (TPC) slider and method for manufacturing the same in which the TPC surfaces occupy more than 50% of the slider rail surfaces. The rail widths may be defined by a shallow etching step in conjunction with a deeper central saw cut defining an ambient pressure slot. Alternatively, the rail widths may be defined by multiple saw cuts. The air bearing surfaces (ABS) may be defined in a single photolithographic step. Utilizing TPC surfaces of greater than 50% of the rail surfaces allows the use of saw cuts to define the rail dimensions and ambient pressure slot with decreased sensitivity to lateral mispositioning of the cuts. The improved TPC slider and method for manufacturing the same provides a simplified, reproducible device and process which is much more rapidly effectuated than processes relying on conventional chemical etching, reactive ion etching or ion milling operations. Also in accordance with a process of the present invention, leading edge ramps of the rails may be advantageously formed prior to definition of the air bearing surfaces and transverse pressurization contours.

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Westminster, CO, United States of America

Georgene M Nielsen