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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Xipeng Zhu, San Diego, CA (US);
Ruiming Zheng, Beijing, CN;
Rulin Xing, Beijing, CN;
Huichun Liu, Beijing, CN;
Thomas Stockhammer, Bergen, DE;
Stefano Faccin, San Ysidro, CA (US);
Kuo-Chun Lee, San Diego, CA (US);
Feilu Liu, San Diego, CA (US);
Yu-Ting Yu, San Francisco, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A user equipment (UE) may identify a bearer (e.g., a default bearer) and request establishment of a second bearer (e.g., a high priority bearer) for use in streaming downlink data from, for example, an application server. The UE may determine a status of a playout buffer and select the first bearer or the second bearer for use in streaming the downlink data associated with the application based on the status of the playout buffer. For example, the first bearer may be used be used by default, and the second bearer may be selected if the amount of data in the playout buffer does not satisfy (e.g., is below) a threshold. In some cases, each bearer may be associated with a transmission control protocol (TCP) port associated with a TCP connection. In some cases, each bearer may be associated with different Internet protocol (IP) address.