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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Ipcom Gmbh & Co. KG, Pullach, DE;

Inventors:

Andreas Schmidt, Braunschweig, DE;

Achim Luft, Braunschweig, DE;

Maik Bienas, Schöppenstedt, DE;

Martin Hans, Bad Salzdetfurth, DE;

Assignee:

IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, Pullach, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2023.01); H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/1263 (2023.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/1215 (2013.01); H04W 28/0278 (2013.01); H04W 72/1263 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a method of transmitting data to a receiving entity, the method comprising establishing a plurality of transmission channels to the receiving entity, the transmission channels being established using more than one radio access technology; for each transmission channel determining a buffer status of a data buffer containing data to be transmitted using that transmission channel; and determining if transmission capacity is available in a packet data unit of a first radio access technology and if such transmission capacity is available determining whether data may be taken from a data buffer of a transmission channel of a second radio access technology and transmitted to the receiving entity in the packet data unit.


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