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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2008
Jitendra D. Padhye, Redmond, WA (US);
Ratul Mahajan, Seattle, WA (US);
Sharad Agarwal, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian Don Zill, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jitendra D. Padhye, Redmond, WA (US);
Ratul Mahajan, Seattle, WA (US);
Sharad Agarwal, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian Don Zill, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided that enable high-performance Internet access on board moving vehicles. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary wireless data communications environment comprises a PluriBus module, an instruction set comprising at least one instruction set to process data for wireless communication between a cooperating component onboard a moving vehicle and other cooperating wireless components, and one or more multiple wide-area wireless communications links. In an illustrative operation, the PluriBus module can perform one more wireless communications techniques comprising opportunistic erasure coding such that coded packets can be sent in the event that there are openings in the one or more wireless communication links' capacity and transmitting the data packets along the one or more wireless communications links that is estimated (e.g., in real time) to offer efficient delivery of data packets.