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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2001
Davide Mandato, Fellbach, DE;
Ernoe Kovacs, Stuttgart, DE;
Klaus Röhrle, Stuttgart, DE;
Oliver Schramm, Wolfschlugen, DE;
Davide Mandato, Fellbach, DE;
Ernoe Kovacs, Stuttgart, DE;
Klaus Röhrle, Stuttgart, DE;
Oliver Schramm, Wolfschlugen, DE;
Sony Deutschland GmbH, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
The present invention generally relates to the field of mobile multimedia middleware, quality-of-service, shared resource reservation mechanisms, distributed processing systems, handheld computers, computer networking and wireless communication. Particularly, the present invention describes a processing system and pieces of software for one or more communication networks, with middleware comprising an application programming interface () cast over a data model describing quality-of-service contracts and quality-of-service adaptation paths specified by quality-of-service aware mobile multimedia applications () using said programming interface, in order to manage quality-of-service and mobility-aware for managing network connections with other applications. The present invention hereby relates to a corresponding data model as well as the necessary architecture.