MX356716B - System for the simultaneous use of multiple heterogeneous network interfaces for improving the network yield in devices with different interfaces. - Google Patents

Abstract

Described is a general brief of one or more embodiments of the process for using multiple heterogeneous network interfaces for the basic understanding of the process intended to send recurrent information, as well as the general aspects of the processes involved in this patent. The invention described as processes allows sending information in a recurrent manner through multiple heterogeneous network interfaces to a remote node maximizing its yield upon using the complete bandwidth of all the active interfaces. The information is sent by a Connection managing module for establishing, maintaining, closing and aborting connections between network devices. The Connection Managing Module maintains the connections and sends them to the Data Managing Module, which is responsible of exchanging information through multiple interfaces of heterogeneous network. The Data Managing Module is formed by the data processing Module that is intended to manage the outgoing data, providing data packets t o the Packet Distribution Module. The Packet Distribution Module evaluates one of the available heterogeneous network interfaces for determining the number of segments that would be sent per each one of the interfaces. When packets are distributed, the module may interact in a direct manner with each one of the network interfaces for sending data through them. All the information sent by the packet distribution module is transported through an Internet Service Provider that is connected to the Internet and finally to a remote Device, which responds with acknowledgment segments to the multi modal device, the Packet Reception Module keeping in separated information queues, the received segments and passing them to the Segment Reassembling Module, which reassembles the original information from the separated information queues using a number of segments included in each one of the segments by means of the Data Processing Module. When all the information is reassembled and rearranged in a n arranged information queue, the data managing module passes this information to the application layer for being subsequently processed.