# US 2017/0257129 A1 · Method and apparatus for a smart personal connect gateway multi-hop networked communication using context aware radio communication management > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0257129 A1 - Document ID: US20170257129A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/061,262 - Filed: 2016-03-04 - Published: 2017-09-07 - Earliest claimed: 2016-03-04 - Assignees: Dell Products L.P. - Applicants: Dell Products, LP - Inventors: Will A. Egner; Liam B. Quinn - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170257129A1 ## CPC - H04B 1/385: {Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets} - H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information - H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services - H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] - H04W 52/0261: {managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level} - H04W 76/14: Direct-mode setup - H04W 48/18: Selecting a network or a communication service - H04W 84/042: {Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems} - H04W 88/16: Gateway arrangements - Y02D 30/70: in wireless communication networks - H04B: TRANSMISSION - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - Y02D: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES [ICT], I.E. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AIMING AT THE REDUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENERGY USE ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A first information handling system functioning as a smart personal connect gateway comprising: a wireless adapter to communicate with a wireless link, wherein at least one wireless link is a multi-hop wireless link to a tethered second information handling system; 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 current location of the smart personal connect gateway; an application processor to determine an available peer-to-peer wireless protocol link operating at the tethered second information handling system to establish the multi-hop wireless link; the application processor to determine a list of optimal available wireless protocols at the current location based on energy link consumption reports indicating signal quality and energy consumption for a plurality of wireless links providing communication and data services and based on the wireless device usage trend data of the smart personal connect gateway for the current location if it is among the plurality of locations where the smart personal connect gateway has operated; the application processor determining whether the multi-hop wireless link is included in the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the current location based on a link rating for an available wireless protocol operating at an anchor mobile gateway device in the multi-hop wireless link having an upstream wireless link to a WWAN wireless network; and the wireless adapter establishing a selected optimal wireless link from the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the current location. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) 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. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The smart personal connect gateway of claim 1, wherein the application processor selects the optimal wireless link based on a lowest level of power consumed for expected wireless usage by the smart personal connect gateway. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The smart personal connect gateway of claim 1 further comprising: the application processor to select an IMSI when the selected optimal wireless link is a WWAN wireless link via an eSIM programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The smart personal connect gateway of claim 4 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 the selected optimal wireless link and a second optimal wireless link that is a multi-hop wireless link to route data based on lowest level of power consumed for expected wireless usage. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) 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. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The smart personal connect gateway of claim 6 further comprising: the application processor to determine the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the location further based on the wireless device usage trend data for the plurality of information handling systems within WPAN range for the location. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The smart personal connect gateway of claim 6, wherein the plurality of information handling systems within WPAN range of the smart personal connect gateway include IoT devices for personal biometric monitoring of a user of the smart personal connect gateway. ### Claim 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 first information handling system operating as a smart personal connect gateway has operated; detecting, via a positional detector, a current location of the smart personal connect gateway; determining, via an application processor, an available peer-to-peer wireless protocol link to a tethered second information handling system to establish a multi-hop wireless link; determining, via the application processor executing code instructions, a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the current location based on a energy link consumption reports indicating energy consumption and signal quality for a plurality of wireless links at the current location and based on the wireless device usage trend data of the smart personal connect gateway for the current location if among the plurality of locations where the smart personal connect gateway has operated; determining, via the application processor, whether the multi-hop wireless link is included in the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the current location based on a link rating for an available wireless protocol operating as an anchor mobile gateway device in the multi-hop wireless link, wherein the anchor mobile gateway device has an upstream wireless link to a WWAN wireless network; and establishing, via a wireless adapter, a selected optimal wireless link selected from the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the current location. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) 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 for the smart personal connect gateway. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) 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. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) 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. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising: establishing a second selected optimal wireless link; wherein if the second optimal wireless link is a WWAN upstream link activating an IMSI via an eSIM corresponding the wireless carrier of the second optimal wireless link. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The computer implemented method of claim 13 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. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The computer implemented method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of information handling systems within WPAN range of the smart personal connect gateway include a plurality of IoT devices for personal biometric monitoring of a user of the smart personal connect gateway. ### Claim 16 A first information handling system functioning as a mobile wireless anchor gateway comprising: a wireless adapter to communicate with a plurality of wireless links, wherein at least one wireless link is a peer-to-peer wireless link to a tethered second information handling system forming a multi-hop wireless link and another wireless link is a wireless upstream link to a WWAN wireless network; a storage device to store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the mobile wireless anchor gateway has operated; the storage device to receive and store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where devices in a local wireless personal area network (WPAN) of the tethered second information handling system have operated; a positional detector to detect a current location of the mobile wireless gateway; an application processor to determine a list of optimal available wireless protocols for the wireless upstream link to candidate WWAN wireless networks at the current location of the mobile wireless anchor gateway, wherein the determination of the list of optimal available wireless protocols is: based on energy link consumption reports indicating energy consumption and signal quality for a plurality of wireless upstream links; and based on the wireless device usage trend data, including the wireless device usage trend data for devices in the WPAN of the tethered second information handling system; and the wireless adapter to establish a selected optimal wireless link for the wireless upstream link selected from the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the current location. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The mobile wireless anchor gateway of claim 16 further comprising: the wireless adapter to establish a second selected optimal wireless link. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The mobile wireless anchor gateway of claim 16 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. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) The mobile wireless anchor gateway of claim 16 further comprising: the application processor to select an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) for the selected optimal wireless links from an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers. ### Claim 20 (depends on 16) The smart personal connect gateway of claim 16, wherein the tethered second information handling system is a second smart personal connect gateway connected via one or more peer-to-peer wireless link hops.