US 11,991,067 B2
Traffic aggregator
Stefan Meyer, Hoechstadt (DE); Thorsten Clevorn, Munich (DE); Bernd W. Adler, San Jose, CA (US); Bernhard Raaf, Neuried Bavaria (DE); and Josef Hausner, Germering (DE)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,202.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/247,001, filed on Sep. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0086510 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04W 28/10 (2009.01); H04W 36/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 45/245 (2013.01) [H04W 28/10 (2013.01); H04W 36/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Wireless communication equipment comprising:
processing circuitry configured to run a first application that generates a first data stream and to run a second application that generates a second data stream;
a traffic aggregator configured to
receive, from an additional traffic aggregator external to the wireless communication equipment, configuration information that includes a set of parameters expected to be exhibited by a corresponding data stream of each traffic class of a plurality of traffic classes,
send a first request to the first application running on the processing circuitry to negotiate an attribute of application data traffic in the first data stream of the first application,
send a second request to the second application running on the processing circuitry to negotiate an attribute of application data traffic in the second data stream of the second application,
receive the first data stream from the first application and the second data stream from the second application, and
generate an aggregated data stream that includes periodic data bursts of aggregated data, the periodic data bursts of aggregated data including the application data traffic in the first data stream and including the application data traffic in the second data stream, and the periodic data bursts of aggregated data exhibiting the set of parameters for a given traffic class of the plurality of traffic classes included in the received configuration information; and
wireless circuitry configured to convey the aggregated data stream to the additional traffic aggregator.