Patents by Inventor DIOGO MIGUEL AUGUSTO LOPES

DIOGO MIGUEL AUGUSTO LOPES has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170311197
    Abstract: Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for present methods and systems for managing mobility of users in a dynamically configurable communication network of moving things comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Diogo Miguel Augusto Lopes, Tiago Silvestre Condeixa, Ricardo Jorge Magalhães de Matos
  • Publication number: 20170215121
    Abstract: Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide detail of a method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium for managing and triggering handover of a mobile network node in a network of moving things comprising a plurality of network nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Tiago Silvestre Condeixa, Diogo Miguel Augusto Lopes, Henrique Manuel Pereira Cabral, Ricardo Jorge Magalhães de Matos
  • Patent number: 9717104
    Abstract: System and method for providing data access to mobile network nodes of a digital data network, said system comprising: a local mobility anchor node, herewith LMA, which has an uplink interface to an upstream network, a plurality of mobility access gateways, herewith MAGs, which are fixed access points comprising a wired interface to the LMA, one or more mobile mobility access gateways, herewith mMAGs, which are mobile, in particular vehicle, access points comprising a wireless interface to a MAGs or other mMAGs, a mobile network node, herewith MNN, comprising a wireless interface to a MAG or mMAG, each of said mMAGs configured for establishing a network binding to the LMA through an access point, by connecting to said access point, the access point being a MAG or another mMAG, such that data packets arrived at the LMA and destined to the MNN are routed and forwarded to the MNN through the mMAG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignees: UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO, INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES, VENIAM, UNIPESSOAL LDA
    Inventors: Susana Isabel Barreto De Miranda Sargento, Diogo Miguel Augusto Lopes, Ricardo Jorge Magalhães De Matos
  • Publication number: 20160309524
    Abstract: System and method for providing data access to mobile network nodes of a digital data network, said system comprising: a local mobility anchor node, herewith LMA, which has an uplink interface to an upstream network, a plurality of mobility access gateways, herewith MAGs, which are fixed access points comprising a wired interface to the LMA, one or more mobile mobility access gateways, herewith mMAGs, which are mobile, in particular vehicle, access points comprising a wireless interface to a MAGs or other mMAGs, a mobile network node, herewith MNN, comprising a wireless interface to a MAG or mMAG, each of said mMAGs configured for establishing a network binding to the LMA through an access point, by connecting to said access point, the access point being a MAG or another mMAG, such that data packets arrived at the LMA and destined to the MNN are routed and forwarded to the MNN through the mMAG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Susana Isabel BARRETO DE MIRANDA SARGENTO, DIOGO MIGUEL AUGUSTO LOPES, Ricardo Jorge MAGALHÃES DE MATOS