Tuning networks and user equipment using a power profile

#The use of communication devices (e.g., cellular phones, smartphones, tablet computers, and the like) has proliferated over the past few years. Modern communication devices may communicate with multiple networks, including background communications and background data transfers, which can quickly consume battery life and/or other power resources. Thus, while battery technologies have improved drastically over the past several years, battery life for communication devices can be short.

#Furthermore, many modern devices (e.g., refrigerators, cars, weather devices, and the like) may be equipped for communications and may register with wireless networks to communicate certain information. These devices may have vastly different requirements relative to one another, but may nonetheless be registered by networks in a similar or even identical manner relative to one another. Thus, some communication paths associated with some devices may be unusable or inefficient, but nonetheless may be provisioned for the device due to a “one size fits all” approach to device registration.

#The present disclosure is directed to tuning networks and user equipment using a power profile. A power profile can be generated for a user equipment or other device such as, for example, a communication device. According to various embodiments, the power profile can be generated for the communication device using a power management application executed by the communication device, by other devices (e.g., a device manufacturer, programmer, or the like), and/or by other entities. Furthermore, the power profile can be created, modified, and/or replaced at various times, by various entities, and/or for various reasons. The power profile can indicate network and/or device tunings that can be used to maximize power management for the one or more devices based on types of content, content type priorities, network capabilities, motion status, power types, and/or other aspects of the one or more devices.

#FIG. 1 is a system diagram illustrating an illustrative operating environment for various embodiments of the concepts and technologies described herein.

#FIG. 2 is a flow diagram showing aspects of a method for generating a power profile, according to an illustrative embodiment of the concepts and technologies described herein.

#FIG. 3 is a flow diagram showing aspects of a method for tuning a network based on power profile data included in a registration message, according to an illustrative embodiment of the concepts and technologies described herein.

#The following detailed description is directed to tuning networks and user equipment using a power profile. A power profile can be generated for a device such as, for example, a communication device. According to various embodiments, the power profile can be generated for the communication device using a power management application executed by the communication device, by other devices (e.g., a device manufacturer, programmer, or the like), and/or by other entities. Furthermore, the power profile can be created, modified, and/or replaced at various times, by various entities, and/or for various reasons. The power profile can indicate network and/or device tunings that can be used to maximize power management for the one or more devices based on types of content, content type priorities, network capabilities, motion status, power types, and/or other aspects of the one or more devices.

#The communication device can extract power profile data from the power profile and can include the power profile data in a registration message. Thus, the power profile can be used (by way of receiving portions of the power profile) by a network element during registration of the communication device for communications on a network. The power profile data and/or other portions of the power profile can be included in other types of messages and/or communications such as the update, for example. A device on the wireless network or other networks and/or devices can receive the registration message and can determine that the power profile data is included as part of, or as being included with, the registration message. The wireless network or a device associated with the wireless network such as, for example a BTS, a communication manager, or the like, can be configured to recognize the power profile data and to use the power profile data to configure the wireless network and/or components thereof.

#The wireless network can be configured to send a tuning message to the communication device. The communication device can use the tuning message to tune its own communication characteristics so that communications between the communication device and the wireless network can occur over the determined channels, using the determined bearers, and/or in accordance with various determined communication characteristics such as, for example, power levels, codes, times, the like.