Patent ID: 9077486
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for adapting data rate in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by a receiving computing device, a data transmission that a transmitting computing device is transmitting at an initial data rate; determining, by the receiving computing device and based on an error rate of the data transmission at the initial data rate, whether a first criterion is satisfied for requesting an increase in the data transmission from the initial data rate to a second data rate, the second data rate being a higher data rate than the initial data rate; sending, by the receiving computing device and for receipt by the transmitting computing device in response to determining that the first criterion is satisfied, a request that the transmitting computing device increase the data transmission from the initial data rate to the second data rate; determining, by the receiving computing device and based on an error rate of the data transmission at the second data rate, whether a second criterion is satisfied for maintaining the data transmission at the second data rate; and maintaining, by the receiving computing device as a result of having determined that the second criterion is satisfied, a state of the receiving computing device for receiving the data transmission at the second data rate.