Patent ID: 9380477
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A terminal, intended for use in performing data communications with another terminal through a wireless access point over a network, comprising a computing device with a transmitter and a receiver, the terminal implementing: a packet gap model (PGM) unit, implemented by the computing device, configured to: a channel quality indicator (CQI) unit, implemented by the computing device, configured to acquire information regarding channel quality of a wireless communication channel over which the terminal is connected with the wireless access point to measure an assured maximum increment of speed of the network, wherein the PGM unit uses a corrected value of α, wherein the corrected value of α is a ratio of: a transmission rate experienced in a network layer of the terminal, to a maximum transmission rate supported by a physical layer of the terminal, received from the CQI unit to calculate a transmission time interval.