SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MODEMS IN A COMPUTING DEVICE

摘要

Systems and methods for controlling a modem in a computing device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a traffic scheduler is logically positioned between the applications and the net driver of the computing device. The traffic scheduler receives all the packets from the applications and prioritizes the packets in a smart queue. Based on the available uplink bandwidth and/or the queue at the modem, the traffic scheduler passes packets from the smart queue to the net driver to be passed to the modem. In addition to having the benefit of having the higher priority packets be passed before the lower priority packets, the traffic scheduler has the added advantage of allowing the deletion of packets that are no longer needed (e.g., packets generated by a program that the user has closed).

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising software with instructions to:
receive a plurality of packets from one or more applications operating on a mobile terminal; determine a relative priority between the plurality of packets; poll a modem of the mobile terminal about a queue length of packets present at the modem; receive information from the modem related to the queue length of packets present at the modem; and hold lower priority packets in a queue while releasing higher priority packets to the modem based on the queue length of packets.