Patent ID: 7289453
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A quality-of-service (QoS) management unit of a mobile terminal connected to a wireless network which is designed to support multimedia services running on said mobile terminal to dynamically adapt to time-varying link characteristics of the underlying mobile radio channel, comprising the following sub-units: at least one analysis unit which evaluates QoS requests received from other nodes to inform an application unit of said mobile terminal about the current QoS situation, at least one processing unit for managing request messages for each type of QoS request on behalf of input signals received from the analysis unit, a monitoring unit and/or further sub-units of said QoS management unit, at least one monitoring unit which monitors the current QoS situation within said mobile node, and initiates requests by activating the processing unit, and at least one generation unit which generates QoS requests on behalf of the processing unit, or passes them on to the QoS management units of other nodes according to input signals received from the analysis unit.