DEVICE LOCATION PREDICTION FOR MOBILE SERVICE OPTIMIZATION

• US 20100323715A1
• Filed: 06/18/2009
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: WINTERS, JACK H.
• Granted Patent: US 8,706,131 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/03 Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/393 Trajectory determination or predictive tracking, e.g. Kalman filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0294 Trajectory determination or predictive filtering, e.g. target tracking or Kalman filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0001 Systems modifying transmission characteristics according to link quality, e.g. power backoff adaptive data allocation for multicarrier modulation H04L5/0044; controlling transmission power for radio systems H04W52/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/008375 based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/322 by location data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events

Abstract

Described technologies are generally related to predicting future mobile device locations and using the predictive information to optimize mobile communications service parameters. Mobile device locations may be predicted using real-time device location information, destination information, and location history. Predicted location information for a given device, and possibly other devices as well, may be used to adjust mobile communications service parameters such as handoffs, channel assignment, multipath fading response parameters, data rates, transmission modes, opportunistic scheduling parameters, location-based services, and location update rates.

Claims

1. A method for a network server to provide wireless communications service to a mobile device, comprising:

receiving real-time mobile device location information;

generating or retrieving mobile device location prediction information using the real-time mobile device location information; and

setting a mobile device wireless communications service parameter based at least in part on the generated or retrieved mobile device location prediction information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the real-time mobile device location information comprises Global Positioning System (GPS) location information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the network server generates the mobile device location prediction information using one or more of the real-time mobile device location information, previous mobile device location information, commuter information, mobile device velocity information, and/or time of day information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the network server retrieves the mobile device location prediction information from a database.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device wireless communications service parameter comprises one or more of a handoff parameter, a transmission channel parameter, a data rate parameter, a transmission mode parameter, an opportunistic scheduling parameter, a location-based service parameter, and/or a location update rate parameter.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating mobile device velocity information using the real-time mobile device location information, and calculating a mobile device location update rate using the velocity information.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising using interference environment information corresponding to the device location prediction information to set the mobile device wireless communications service parameter.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device location prediction information comprises vehicle navigation system information.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the real-time mobile device location information corresponds to a location of a GPS unit that is integrated with the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device location prediction information comprises prediction information relating to a plurality of mobile devices.

11. A method for a network server to provide wireless communications service to a mobile device in a vehicle, the method comprising:

receiving real-time Global Positioning System (GPS) location information that corresponds to a real-time location of the vehicle, wherein the mobile device is associated with the vehicle;

generating or retrieving mobile device location prediction information using the real-time GPS location information; and

setting a mobile device wireless communications service parameter based at least in part on the generated or retrieved mobile device location prediction information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device location prediction information comprises vehicle navigation system information.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device wireless communications service parameter comprises a handoff parameter.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device wireless communications service parameter comprises a data rate parameter.

15. A mobile device equipped to optimize wireless communications service to the mobile device based on predicted mobile device locations, comprising:

a processor; and

a computer readable medium comprising instructions executable by the processor, wherein the instructions are arranged to configure the processor to;

establish a Global Positioning System (GPS) location information link for communication of real-time mobile device location information to a wireless communications service; and

receive a wireless communications service parameter for the mobile device, wherein the parameter is determined using mobile device location prediction information corresponding to the real-time mobile device location information communicated over the GPS location information link.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the instructions are further arranged to configure the processor to generate the mobile device location prediction information by the mobile device.

17. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein to establish the Global Positioning System (GPS) location information link the instructions are arranged to configure the processor to send to the wireless communications service GPS unit identification information for a GPS unit proximal to the mobile device.

18. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the instructions are further arranged to configure the processor to carry out a handoff in accordance with a handoff parameter received from the wireless communications service.

19. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the instructions are further arranged to configure the processor to throttle a data download in accordance with a data rate parameter received from the wireless communications service.

20. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the instructions are further arranged to configure the processor to send mobile device location updates at a rate specified by the parameter.