System and method for transmission of data from a wireless mobile device over a multipath wireless router

摘要

There is disclosed a system and method for transmission of multiple data streams from a mobile device to a network. In an embodiment, the system includes a multipath wireless router configured to provide a plurality of network connections including cellular, satellite, or wired Ethernet. An encoding module provided on the mobile device is configured to encode high volume data (e.g. high definition video) recorded by the mobile device into multiple data streams in dependence on the number of network connections available for transmission via the multipath wireless router. The encoding module provided on the mobile device transmits the multiple data streams to the wireless router using Wi-Fi to provide a local, short-hop, high capacity network connection. The plurality of network connections available via the multipath wireless router provides the necessary capacity and reliability to transmit a high volume of data, such as high definition video, virtually live.

主权项

1. A computer system for improving network communications, the computer system comprising:
a. at least one mobile device; and b. a computer-implemented network router linked to the at least one mobile device, or associated mobile devices, and configured to connect to, or initiate the connection to, a plurality of networks using associated network connections, wherein the network router accesses iteratively real time or near real time performance data for the plurality of networks, and based on the performance data determines a network communication performance profile, and based on the performance profile splits information into multiple data streams and controls a transfer of the multiple data streams via the associated network connections and the plurality of networks, thereby improving transmission of the information from the at least one mobile device; wherein the performance data is accessed iteratively, thereby optionally updating the performance profile successively, and permitting the network router to vary selective transmission across the network connections based on updates to the performance profile; wherein at least one of the plurality of networks is a wireless network, and at least one of the network connections is a wireless network connection; and wherein the network router is configured to generate the performance profile in part based on cost considerations associated with the plurality of networks, using one or more cost minimization rules.