Network edge based access network discovery and selection
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsVenson Shaw, Sangar Dowlatkhah
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Abstract
An edge device comprising access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) features is disclosed. An edge device can be a device located at a logical edge of a wireless network. An edge ANDSF component can rank access network resources. The rank can be based on characteristics of an access network resource, a user profile, device resource demands, or a user behavior model. The user profile can comprise information facilitating pre-authentication of a device to an access network resource. Further, the user profile can be considered portable with regard to localized aspects of edge ANDSF components. The user profile provides improved ANDSF feature performance.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- updating user profile data of a user profile based on an aggregate usage of devices associated with the user profile, wherein a credential of the user profile relates to enabling a connection to an access point device facilitating use of a wireless network by a device of the devices;
- ranking a resource that is available via the access point device based on a rule related to the resource;
- and
- in response to the device being determined to be in a service area of the access point device, providing access to the credential based on the ranking, wherein the credential facilitates access to the resource by the device via the access point device.
A method, comprising:
- in response to receiving, by a device comprising a processor, information relating to an aggregate use of devices associated with a user profile, updating user profile data corresponding to the user profile comprising a credential that facilitates connection to an access point device enabling access to a network;
- sorting, by the device, access point devices comprising the access point device based on an availability of a resource via the access point device;
- and
- in response to a mobile device of the devices being determined to be in a service area of the access point device, enabling, by the device, access to the credential to facilitate access to the resource by the mobile device via the access point device.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of an edge device of a network, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- in response to receiving information relating to a use of devices associated with a user profile, updating user profile data of the user profile based on an aggregate use of the devices, wherein the user profile data comprises a credential associated with accessing an access point device in accord with an access network discovery and selection function rule for a network;
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- in response to determining that a mobile device of the devices is in a service area of the access point device, providing access to the credential, to facilitate access by the mobile device to a resource via the access point device, in response to determining a degree to which the resource satisfies a resource request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.