System and method for communicating using bandwidth on demand

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8787873
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13669026

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A system and method for dynamically changing the quality of service (QoS) for a subscriber of a cellular radio system. Bandwidth-on-Demand (BoD) enables the subscriber to dynamically switch to higher bandwidth and to enable a higher throughput. This may be for a limited time or amount of data, for example. The initiation may be by the subscriber, carrier, sponsor, or automatically by an application. The QoS increase may be dynamically priced in a kind of auction. The wireless device may contact the policy servers of a multiple network operator (MNO), which in turn contacts the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server in the MNO's core network. The policy server contacts the scheduler on the serving basestation which then determines whether to allocate more resources (i.e. bandwidth in the form of subcarriers, resource blocks, resource elements, timeslots) to the subscriber. The initiation may start a timer or data counter.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hitt, Richard E New Fairfield, US 6 187
Horine, Brent Hansen Altamonte Springs, US 2 68
Raju, Karthikesh Espoo, US 2 68
von, Zelowitz Per New York, US 2 68

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