Method and system for bearer management in a third generation mobile telecommunications system

Patent 6690679 Issued on February 10, 2004. Estimated Expiration Date:

June 15, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Application

No. 09/334004 filed on 06/15/1999

US Classes:

370/469, Processing multiple layer protocols370/230.1Traffic shaping

Examiners

Primary: Pham, Chi
Assistant: George, Keith E.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Perman & Green, LLP

International Class

H04Q 7/38 (20060101)

Foreign Application Priority Data

1998-06-16 FI

Abstract

In a telecommunication device the handling of data to be transmitted proceeds according to a protocol stack having a L3 layer and a MAC layer. For handling data flows between the L3 layer and the MAC layer the following steps are perfomed: a flow of data to be transmitted coming from the L3 layer is demultiplexed into a number of component data flows, each component data flow having a certain Quality of Service requirement, the component data flows are arranged into groups where the Quality of Service requirement of each component data flow in a group is similar to the Quality of Service requirements of the other component data flows belonging to the same group, the component data flows are multiplexed groupwise into multiplexed data flows and the multiplexed data flows are outputted to the MAC layer.