Method and apparatus for a determination of optimal wireless connectivity and connection via a smart personal connect gateway system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9756547-B2
Application number	US-201615010945-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2016
Priority date	Nov 4, 2014
Publication date	Sep 5, 2017
Grant date	Sep 5, 2017

Abstract

An information handling system functioning as a smart personal connect gateway includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a plurality of wireless links and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart personal connect gateway has operated. The smart personal connect gateway further includes a positional detector to detect a location of the smart personal connect gateway and an application processor to correlate the wireless device usage trend data to a location and to determine a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of wireless links and the wireless device usage trend data for the location. The smart personal connect gateway application processor selects an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) for one of the optimal wireless links for an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers and then switches the wireless adapter to the selected optimal wireless link.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information handling system functioning as a smart personal connect gateway comprising:
a wireless adapter to communicate with a wireless link;
a storage device to store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart personal connect gateway has operated;
a positional detector to detect a location of the smart personal connect gateway;
an application processor to correlate the wireless device usage trend data to a location of the smart personal connect gateway;
the application processor to determine a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the location based on:
a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of wireless links;
energy link consumption reports indicating energy consumption for the plurality of wireless links provision of communication and data services; and
the wireless device usage trend data for the location;

the application processor to select an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) for one of the optimal wireless links from an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers; and
the wireless adapter to switch to a selected optimal wireless link on a wireless service carrier corresponding to the selected IMSI.

2. The smart personal connect gateway of claim 1 further comprising:
the application processor to determine a battery state of charge for a battery of the smart personal connect gateway;
the processor applying a weighting factor based on the battery state of charge to selection of the optimal wireless service carriers and optimal available wireless protocols, wherein an optimal wireless link will be selected based on lowest level of power consumed for expected wireless usage by the smart personal connect gateway.

3. The smart personal connect gateway of claim 1 further comprising:
the application processor to select a second IMSI for a second optimal wireless link via a second eSIM programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers;
the wireless adapter to establish the second selected optimal wireless link on a second carrier corresponding to the second selected IMSI.

4. The smart personal connect gateway of claim 3 further comprising:
the application processor to determine a battery state of charge for a battery of the smart personal connect gateway;
if the battery state of charge is below a threshold level, the application processor will select between established first and second optimal wireless links to route data based on lowest level of power consumed for expected wireless usage.

5. The smart personal connect gateway of claim 1 further comprising:
a local wireless adapter to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of information handling systems within wireless personal area network (WPAN) range of the smart personal connect gateway.

6. The smart personal connect gateway of claim 1 further comprising:
a local wireless adapter to wirelessly communicate with a plurality internet of things (IoT) sensors monitoring biometric telemetry.

7. The smart personal connect gateway of claim 1 , wherein the application processor selects the IMSI for one of the optimal wireless links based on a lowest level of power consumed from among the optimal wireless service carriers.

8. The smart personal connect gateway of claim 5 , wherein the application processor selects the optimal IMSI and switches the corresponding wireless link further based on communication data types to be received from the plurality of information handling systems communicating with the local wireless adapter.

9. A computer implemented method comprising:
storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where a smart personal connect gateway has operated;
detecting, via a positional detector, a position of the mobile information handling system;
determining, via an application processor executing code instructions, a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the location based on:
a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of wireless links;
energy link consumption reports indicating energy consumption for the plurality of wireless links provision of communication and data services; and
the wireless device usage trend data for the location;

selecting, via an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM), an optimal international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) corresponding to a wireless service carrier for one of the optimal wireless links; and
switching, via a wireless adapter, to the selected optimal wireless link corresponding to the optimal IMSI.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the optimal wireless service carriers and optimal available wireless protocols are those that consume a lowest level of power and meet a minimum threshold of signal quality at the location corresponding to expected communication types according to the wireless device usage trend data.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising:
wirelessly communicating, via a local wireless adapter, with a plurality of information handling systems within wireless personal area network (WPAN) range of the smart personal connect gateway.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 9 , wherein determining the list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the location is further based on wireless device usage trend data including spatial-temporal user profiles for a plurality of information handling systems within wireless personal area network (WPAN) range of the smart personal connect gateway.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising:
establishing a second selected optimal wireless link on a second wireless service carrier corresponding to a second IMSI activated via a second eSIM.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising:
transmitting a request for screened IMSIs based on the list of optimal wireless service carriers from a pool of IMSIs at a network broker system.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising:
determining a battery state of charge for a battery of the smart personal connect gateway; and
if the battery state of charge is below a threshold level, selecting between established first and second optimal wireless links to route data based on lowest level of power consumed for expected wireless usage.

16. An information handling system functioning as a smart personal connect gateway comprising:
a wireless adapter to communicate with a wireless link;
a local wireless adapter to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of information handling systems within wireless personal area network (WPAN) range of the smart personal connect gateway;
a storage device to store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart personal connect gateway has operated;
a positional detector to detect a location of the smart personal connect gateway;
an application processor to correlate the wireless device usage trend data to a location of the smart personal connect gateway;
the application processor to determine a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless prot

Assignees

• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Egner Will A
• Quinn Liam B

Classifications

• H04W88/16

  Gateway arrangements · CPC title

• A61B5/14532

  for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement · CPC title

• H04W48/16

  Discovering, processing access restriction or access information · CPC title

• H04W88/06

  adapted for operation in multiple networks {or having at least two operational modes}, e.g. multi-mode terminals · CPC title

• A61B5/14542

  for measuring blood gases (A61B5/14551 takes precedence) · CPC title