US 10,321,377 B1Granted

Profile switching powered by location

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsWeihua Tan, Shishir Kumar Agrawal

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Abstract

A device and method for profile switching based on location and wireless network quality are provided. A client device determines relevant locations for a user of the client device based on a variety of factors. After determining that a location is of particular relevance to the user, the client device will proceed to collect wireless network parameters for each available wireless network at each of the relevant locations for the user. The client device then determines a quality score for each wireless network at each relevant location and proceeds to utilize the quality score to make wireless network profile switching decisions as the client device travels between the relevant locations.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A server configured to choose a wireless network for a client device, the server comprising:

a location determination module configured to receive a location of the client device and to determine whether the location is within an area defining a relevant location for the client device, wherein determining whether the location is within the area defining the relevant location is based on a number of visits the client device made to the location and an amount of time the client device spent in the location;
and
a wireless network selection module configured to:
receive wireless network parameters collected by the client device from each of a plurality of wireless networks available at the location of the client device when the location is within the area defining the relevant location;
determine a highest quality wireless network based on the received wireless network parameters;
and
transmit an indication of the highest quality wireless network to the client device.

4 more elements

A method in a server for choosing a wireless network for a client device, the method comprising:

receiving a current location of the client device;
determining whether the current location of the client device is within an area defining a relevant location of one or more relevant locations for the client device, wherein determining whether the current location of the client device is within the area defining the relevant location is based on a number of visits the client device made to the current location and an amount of time the client device spent in the current location;
receiving wireless network parameters collected by the client device from available wireless networks at the current location of the client device when the current location is within the area defining the relevant location;
determining a highest quality wireless network out of the available wireless networks;
and
transmitting an indication of the highest quality wireless network to the client device.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/491,481Filed 19 Apr 2017 · continuation
Priority: 17 Apr 2015
Granted: 11 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04B 1/3816
Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of…:…
H04W 4/02
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services making use of location information
H04B 17/318
Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters: received signal strength
H04W 4/029
Services making use of location information: location-based management or tracking services

Family

Application14/689,857Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Apr 2015
US 9,648,537 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2016/0316410 A1Published application
US 10,321,377 B1This patent

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