Providing adaptive network access

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9894600-B1
Application number	US-201514732093-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jun 5, 2015
Priority date	Jan 26, 2007
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

A method, system, and medium are provided for adaptively providing network access to mobile devices. The mobile devices have a first interface for a wireless access network and a second interface for a personal area network. The wireless access network connects the mobile devices to a base station, and the personal area network connects the mobile device to other mobile devices that are part of the personal area network. Wireless access conditions are generated by the base station and communicated over the wireless access network to mobile devices that generate network access requests. Additionally, the mobile devices may transmit the wireless access conditions over the personal are network to other mobile devices that are within a predetermined distance. The mobile devices detect that the wireless access conditions in the wireless access network have degraded and adaptively select alternate routes to complete the network access requests.

First claim

The technology claimed is:

1. A mobile device to generate a route recommendation through adaptive learning, the mobile device comprising:
a processor having an adaptive access engine to generate route recommendations, wherein the adaptive access engine is configured to operate in both a first operating mode and a second operating mode;
when in the first operating mode, the adaptive access engine identifies patterns in wireless access conditions received by the mobile device and assigns weights to patterns in wireless access conditions to determine conditions that are favorable for completing a network access request, wherein the weights are assigned based on predefined importance levels associated with wireless access conditions and dynamically change based on a magnitude associated with the wireless access conditions; and
when in the second operating mode, the adaptive access engine provides the route recommendation to other devices in a personal network with the mobile device based on patterns identified by the adaptive access engine.

2. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the adaptive access engine determines whether to route the network access request over a wireless network or the personal network.

3. The mobile device of claim 2 , wherein the adaptive access engine generates a wireless access message that provides at least one of the following: an indication of alternate access routes or an indication that one or more wireless devices should wait to access the wireless access network.

4. The mobile device of claim 3 , wherein the network access request includes at least one of a registration request, a purchase request, a voice communication, a video communication, or a data communication.

5. The mobile device of claim 2 , wherein the route recommendation includes an estimated wait time for completing the network access request.

6. The mobile device of claim 5 , wherein the route recommendation is for completing the network access request that includes at least one of purchase requests, completing voice communications, completing video communication, or completing data communication; and the route recommendation includes a determination of whether a transaction processing portion of the network access request should be performed over the wireless access network and whether content delivery associated with the transaction processing portion should be completed over the personal network.

7. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having computer executable instructions for performing a method to generate a route recommendation for wireless access connections on a mobile device, the method comprising:
generating the route recommendation by an adaptive access engine, associated with the mobile device, wherein the adaptive access engine operates in both a first operating mode and a second operating mode;
identifying one or more patterns in wireless access conditions received by the mobile device and assigning weights to patterns in wireless access conditions received by the mobile device when the adaptive access engine is operating in the first operating mode, wherein the weights are assigned based on predefined importance levels associated with wireless access conditions and dynamically change based on a magnitude associated with the wireless access conditions; and
providing, when in the second operating mode, the route recommendation to other devices in a personal area network with the mobile device based on patterns identified by the adaptive access engine.

8. The media of claim 7 , wherein the route recommendation includes an estimated wait time for completing a network access request.

9. The media of claim 8 , wherein the route recommendation is for completing network access requests that include at least one of purchase requests, completing voice communications, completing video communication, or completing data communication and the route recommendation includes a determination of whether a transaction processing portion of the network access request should be performed over the wireless access network and whether content delivery associated with the transaction processing portion should be completed over the personal area network.

10. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:
generating a route recommendation by an adaptive access engine, associated with a mobile device, that operates in both a first operating mode and a second operating mode;
identifying one or more patterns in wireless access conditions received by the mobile device and assigning weights to the patterns in wireless access conditions received by the mobile device when the adaptive access engine is operating in the first operating mode, wherein the weights are assigned based on predefined importance levels associated with wireless access conditions and dynamically change based on a magnitude associated with the wireless access conditions; and
providing, when in the second operating mode, the route recommendation to other devices in a personal area network with the mobile device based on patterns identified by the adaptive access engine.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the route recommendation includes an estimated wait time for completing a network access request.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the route recommendation is for completing the network access request that includes at least one of purchase requests, completing voice communications, completing video communication, or completing data communication and the route recommendation includes a determination of whether a transaction processing portion of the network access request should be performed over a wireless access network and whether content delivery associated with the transaction processing portion should be completed over the personal area network.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the patterns include signal strength, channel bandwidth, and channel capacity.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the patterns for a plurality of mobile devices include location information.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the patterns for the plurality of mobile devices include a type and magnitude.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the patterns are for a wireless access network distinct from the personal area network.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein content delivery of the personal area network is available when one or more mobile devices in the personal area network own digital content that is associated with a transaction processing portion.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the adaptive access engine determines whether to route a network access request over a wireless access network or the personal area network.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the adaptive access engine generates wireless access messages that provide at least one of the following: an indication of alternate access routes or an indication that one or more wireless devices should wait to access the wireless access network.

20. The method of claim 18 , wherein the adaptive access engine detects wireless access conditions in the wireless access network that have degraded and adaptively selects alternate routes to complete the network access request in response to detected wireless access conditions.

Assignees

• Sprint Communications Co Lp

Inventors

• Habib Ahsan
• Mauer Brian Douglas
• Paczkowski Lyle Walter
• Sankaranaraynan Pallavur Ananthakrishnan
• Schlesener Matthew Carl

Classifications

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04W40/18

  based on predicted events · CPC title

• H04W28/0215

  based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices (services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51) · CPC title

• H04W40/04

  based on wireless node resources · CPC title

• H04W88/10

  adapted for operation in multiple networks, e.g. multi-mode access points · CPC title