US 9,854,509 B2Granted

Motion-based kinetic fingerprint radio selection

AssigneeAT&T Mobility II LLC

InventorArthur Brisebois

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Abstract

Motion adaptive wireless user equipment (UE) in a wireless network are provided. Kinetic information is leveraged to select a preferred radio (or radio technology) or adapt a reselection scanning interval. This can serve to improve the performance of a UE by reducing the amount of power expended in maintaining an adequate level of connectedness to the wireless network components in the face of UE movement. In a further aspect, kinetic power generators can be employed as a source of UE transit data. Kinetic fingerprints can be compared to UE transit data, e.g., that acquired from a kinetic generator of the UE, to facilitate selection of preferred radios and reselection intervals. In this aspect, radio selection schema and reselection scanning schema can effectively be selected with little to no drain on a UE power source.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a kinetic sensor of a user equipment, data related to a movement of the user equipment,
determining, based on the data related to the movement of the user equipment, that the movement of the user equipment is associated with a plurality of kinetic changes,
comparing the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment to a plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein each of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints corresponds to a respective pattern of kinetic changes associated with travel via one of a plurality of modes of transit,
determining a correlation between the movement of the user equipment and a kinetic fingerprint of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein determining the correlation is based on determining a match between at least a portion of the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment and the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint, and wherein the correlation indicates that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via a mode of transit of the plurality of modes of transit that is associated with the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint,
determining, based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit, a radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment, and
determining a reselection scanning schedule for the user equipment based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a kinetic sensor of a user equipment, data related to a movement of the user equipment;
determining, based on the data related to the movement of the user equipment, that the movement of the user equipment is associated with a plurality of kinetic changes;
comparing the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment to a plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein each of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints corresponds to a respective pattern of kinetic changes associated with travel via one of a plurality of modes of transit;
determining a correlation between the movement of the user equipment and a kinetic fingerprint of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein determining the correlation is based on determining a match between at least a portion of the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment and the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint, and wherein the correlation indicates that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via a mode of transit of the plurality of modes of transit that is associated with the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint;
determining, based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit, a radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment;
and
determining a reselection scanning schedule for the user equipment based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit.

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A method comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor from a kinetic sensor of a user equipment, data related to movement of the user equipment;
determining, by the system, based on the data related to the movement of the user equipment, that the movement of the user equipment is associated with a plurality of kinetic changes;
comparing, by the system, the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment to a plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein each of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints corresponds to a respective pattern of kinetic changes associated with travel via one of a plurality of modes of transit;
determining, by the system, a correlation between the movement of the user equipment and a kinetic fingerprint of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein determining the correlation is based on determining a match between at least a portion of the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment and the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint, and wherein the correlation indicates that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via a mode of transit of the plurality of modes of transit that is associated with the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint;
determining, by the system, based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit, a radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment;
and
determining, by the system, a reselection scanning schedule for the user equipment based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/797,255Filed 13 Jul 2015 · division
Priority: 15 Nov 2010
Published: US 2015/0319680 A15 Nov 2015
Granted: 26 Dec 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 48/16
Access restriction ; Network selection; Access point selection: discovering, processing access restriction or access information
H04W 4/025
Services making use of location information: using location based information parameters
H04W 4/027
Using location based information parameters: using movement velocity, acceleration information
H04W 52/0254
Using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity: detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device

Family

Application12/946,611Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Nov 2010
Application13/748,454Parent of this division · filed 23 Jan 2013
US 8,385,917 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Feb 2013
US 2015/0319680 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Nov 2015
US 9,084,181 B2Parent of this division
Application13/748,454Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0122452 A1Published application
US 2013/0137428 A1Published application
US 9,854,509 B2This patent

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